By Caribbean News Now contributor
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Protest action and calls for Puerto Rico’s governor to resign amid corruption and scandal continued on Thursday with more organised demonstrations planned for Friday.
The political turmoil comes at a critical stage as reported previously, to US authorities announced indictments involving six people, including two former high-ranking Puerto Rico government officials, who were charged with conspiracy and other crimes in connection with millions of dollars in federal Medicaid and education funds.
Other charges in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indictment included money laundering, theft, wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy, that include on page 16: “By paying unauthorized commissions, the cost of government contracts was unnecessarily inflated and increased.”
“Thousands of protesters have jammed streets in San Juan since Saturday, calling on Governor Ricardo Rossello to step down,” Reuters reports. And that “dozens of guns were stolen in a raid on police firearms center.”
Hundreds of protesters and police faced off on the colonial streets outside La Fortaleza, the governor’s mansion, in the neighborhood of Old San Juan.
Police used tear gas, rubber bullets at protesters demanding the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
Protests say they have had enough of declared in no uncertain terms the governor must go, chanting we deserve better – from corrupt politicians, decades of scandals and mismanagement, and most recently, recovery efforts from…
