Title: Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns After Protests - The New York Times
Headings: Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns After Protests
Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns After Protests
Content: In the chat, one of Mr. Rosselló’s aides joked about using the overflow of bodies at the island’s morgues as bait for the administration’s foes: “ Don’t we have some cadavers to feed our crows?” Anger at such tone-deaf exchanges united Puerto Ricans of all stripes, including many who had never protested before. Popular musicians rallied millions of fans on social media. The artists known as Residente, iLe and Bad Bunny produced a protest song, “Afilando los Cuchillos” (“Sharpening the Knives”), that became a street anthem. Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans escalated the uprising on Monday by shutting down a major highway in San Juan. [What is behind the Puerto Rico protests?] “We’re sick of the corruption, of the abuse,” said Misael Correa Robles, 26, a college student from Carolina, P.R., who attended the protests. “ It’s been decades of this.” On Wednesday morning, the walls of Calle Fortaleza, the street leading to the governor’s residence, were blanketed with political graffiti that read like a wish list: “