Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation, days after demonstrators at the island's largest protest in recent history called for his ouster over a scandal involving leaked private chats as well as corruption investigations and arrests, NBC News reported. His resignation, effective Aug.
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Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s looming resignation leaves Puerto Rico’s government in shambles and may strengthen the hand of federal overseers tasked with imposing austerity on the bankrupt island to pull it from a years-long financial crisis, Bloomberg reported.
As protesters flood Puerto Rican cities demanding that Gov. Ricardo Rosselló resign, the man himself has ducked local reporters and stayed out of sight as demonstrations surrounded the executive mansion in the capital’s colonial quarter, Bloomberg reported.
Massive and at times violent protests in Puerto Rico showed no sign of stopping as labor unions yesterday organized a march today to keep up pressure on the governor to resign, while dozens of guns were stolen in a raid on a police firearms center, Reuters reported.
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