known to Caesar. Many were former enemies who had accepted his pardon – but even more were friends." In her official judicial filing, Vázquez Nieves stated she felt "insecure, worried and threatened," to which, Col. Henry Escalera Rivera, the Commissioner of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, said the matter will be investigated, however she would not be given a police escort. After the effects of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, Vázquez Nieves was scheduled to meet with general assistant of the National Guard, José Reyes and make both a radio telemarathon on the Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation. After the House of Representatives introduced a measure to increase the minimum wage, Nieves Vázquez expressed that the minimum wage for private sector employees should be increased from the federal of $7.25 per hours to $9.00. For public sector employees it is $8.25 an hour. On 22 December 2019, she endorsed Governor Wanda Vázquez's 2020 election campaign, by making a play on Goya Foods slogan, "If it's Wanda, it has to be good." Amid rumours that Wanda Vázquez would transfer control of the Juan A. Rivero Zoo from the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources to the Municipality of Mayagüez, under José Guillermo Rodríguez, Vázquez Nieves clarified that there was a commitment that by the end of March 2020 the governor would visit the zoo. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico, the meeting was postponed and held on 11 July 2020, where she did not maintain social distance. Vázquez Nieves was the author of Law 49–2020, which created a hotline for survivors of domestic abuse under the number code 0-0-0. This was criticized by feminist activists as a duplicity of efforts since this new hotline was attached to the Office of the Women's Advocate, which already has such a hotline. In the aftermath of the Puerto Rico earthquakes a report as part of an investigation accused Vázquez of withholding aid to displaced people and using it as a political tool. Vázquez Nieves decided to change her aspiration to the senate from a District, to an at-large one. This meant, her votes would come from the whole island instead of a geographical area considered unwinnable from her. On August 16, 2020 she lost the 2020 Primaries of the New Progressive Party as she failed to obtain enough votes to make it to the general election. In 2020 Evelyn Vázquez was