The media played the gathering of a few thousand people as a revolution. It was nothing of the kind. A corrupt, inept man stepped down as Governor. He should NEVER have been elected, given the halloween-scale amount of skeletons in his closet, including the killing of a woman and her children during a drunken night out when he was in college, and his father was governor of the island.
The fiscal nightmare of Puerto Rico can be blamed on first, the public utility syndicates, the electric and water companies, two monopolies which, in tandem with the unions, make up the perfect mafia; an organize crime syndicate which to this day, operates and mismanages the electric and water utilities. The Worker has become the tyrant for Puerto Rico.
Besides that, the same corrupt politicians that have been in power for years, the president of the senate, Thomas Rivera Schatz and the leader of the House, Johnny Mendez, both from the ruling party, the PNP, in addition to the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin, a woman so corrupt they call her the Red Tick -- these are still in office and they constitute the real threat to Puerto Rico.
I really wish a revolution would happen, but that will need a little more than a couple of thousand people going out for a walk in Old San Juan.
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Governance of Puerto Rico has long been characterized by incompetence, corruption and apathy. Many years of irresponsible spending and borrowing is why PR now finds itself without the financial resources for recovery. All this has been laid bare for all to see by Hurricane Irma.
If the aftermath of the hurricane spurs citizens to get involved with their government, and to demand honesty and competence from it, then in the long run, the hurricane will truly have been the ill wind that blew some good.
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It's unfortunate that this passion for revitalization has not occurred in the U.S. Virgin Islands to any useful extent. Their power authority still cannot maintain consistent power on a day to day basis, to the point where schools close early because of yet another mysterious blackout.
My understanding is that they've brought down some pros from New York to help sort through this endless incompetence, but the territory did the same thing with its police force well before Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and absolutely nothing changed there as well. I imagine the diaspora that occurred after Maria will continue, and it might well focus on the people who have tried to run businesses in the face of incompetence and open hostility to "colonials."
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