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Residente Posts Searing Statement Calling for Puerto Rican Governor’s Resignatio­n

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If you’ve been following Puerto Rican news lately, you’ve probably heard about Governor Ricardo Roselló’s seemingly endless thread of scandals – including allegation­s of corruption, fumbling of LGBTQI rights, and even the now-infamous text messaging scandal. nd though Residente Aside from the written (along with statement, Residente BFF Bad Bunny) recently also spoke for made their way seven minutes about into the gubernator­ial the various problems mansion for a 2 a.m. he and others feel Roselló coffee, and seemed to is causing the people leave the meeting feeling of Puerto Rico. hopeful, the former Watch the video Calle 13 rapper has here, and read Residente’s now released a powerful written statement, statement against which we’ve Roselló, demanding his translated, below: resignatio­n. The lack of respect

In his statement, that this government which he posted on his has for our country is Instagram along with a historic. We have to video of him speaking, send a message to the he expressed the embarrassm­ent next people in power of he feels the this country that if you government has mess with our people brought on Puerto Rico, (to quote the words of and calls for Roselló to Alfonso Orona), we will resign or be removed by cut the head. Today, it the power of the people is time to say goodbye who oppose him. to this public employee

Awho was supposed to be for the good of the country. The message is clear and simple, every Puerto Rican with dignity asks governor Ricardo Roselló to resign immediatel­y. We don’t want his government for even one more day. All the protesters on the streets who are also critical of the government are just in doing so. The ills on the part of the government, the insults against the LGBT community, the joke they’ve made out of the remains of our country,

the lack of respect for the free press, the lack of respect toward the people who tirelessly fight for Puerto Rico, like Carlos Gallisá, the lack of respect toward its own employees, the lack of respect toward women, the mistreatme­nt of colectivo femenista, I could write a doctoral dissertati­on with many reasons for why he needs to resign today on his own. The government has lost the respect of an entire country. If he doesn’t resign, we will take him out of office.

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