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. Thousands of protesters have jammed streets in San Juan since Saturday, calling on Governor Ricardo Rossello to step down after the leak of a raft of controversial and vulgar text messages between him and his closest allies. The scandal comes on the heels of a federal probe into government corruption on the bankrupt island. The political turmoil comes at a critical stage in the U.S. territory’s bankruptcy. It has also raised concerns with U.S. lawmakers who are weighing the island’s requests for billions of federal dollars for health care and for recovery efforts following devastating hurricanes in 2017.
