But during the summer of 2019, mass protests unseated Gov. Ricardo Rosselló of the PNP. From that, a new leftist (or progressive) party emerged and, along with the existing leftist party, drew a historic level of support. Here’s why that matters.
During the summer of 2019, hundreds of thousands of people protested against Rosselló after hundreds of pages of leaked chats revealed not just his administration’s corruption but also its contempt for ordinary voters. That grass-roots movement objected to how Rosselló’s successor was installed. Various civil society leaders argued that the 2020 election would be the next opportunity to change the island’s political leadership. Keep reading>>
