Puerto Ricans shut down a major highway and march toward capitol to demand the governor resign
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Puerto Ricans filled the streets for a massive planned protest, paralyzing a major San Juan highway in an islandwide demonstration to demand that their governor must go.
The embattled Puerto Rican leader has refused to resign after more than a week of growing protests in the U.S. territory’s capital city. Ricardo Rosselló, 40, a Democrat and member of the island’s statehood party, said Sunday he would not seek reelection in 2020 and would step down from his role as head of the party.
But the announcement did nothing to assuage Puerto Ricans incensed by a leaked series of group-chat messages in which Rosselló and his closest collaborators denigrated their opponents, insulted women and gay people, made light of Hurricane Maria’s dead and revealed potentially criminal behavior by his administration.
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