[News] Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny Join Puerto Rico Protests Against Governor Rossello

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  Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny Join Puerto Rico Protests Against Governor
  Rossello

July 17, 2019
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Thousands of Puerto Ricans continued Wednesday their fourth consecutive 
day protesting in the main cities of the island and demanding the 
resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Protests-US-Demand-Puerto-Rico-Governor-Resignation-20190715-0020.html>, 
who is immersed in a scandal involving leaked offensive messages on the 
chat app Telegram against journalists and political leaders.

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The Colectiva Femenina organization called for a demonstration in Old 
San Juan in which artists such as Residente, Daddy Yankee, Ricky Martin 
and Bad Bunny will be present.

"My heart suffers for the events and my voice joins that of all those 
who, more than an explanation, demand a change... Transparency has to be 
part of our culture to fight corruption. I join a peaceful protest to 
demand for transparency and, above all, to demand for respect," the 
singer Daddy Yankee said.

A day earlier in San Juan protests began in the vicinity of La 
Fortaleza, the seat of government, where a group of women sat in the 
street and covered their mouths with a tape saying "Resign."

Throughout the day, the protests multiplied in dozens of places through 
peaceful civil resistance actions. For example, in the neighborhood of 
Rio Piedras, a group of people expressed their anger at their government 
by removing the image of Rossello which was at the offices of the Driver 
Services Center.

"This cannot be allowed, it is disrespectful," said Bad Bunny, referring 
to what is happening in Puerto Rico and added that the Rossello 
government is stealing in our face."

"Frustrated and angry, I feel an awful chest pressure and how I can get 
rid of this anguish is simply traveling to Puerto Rico and saying 
present on the march," Ricky Martin said and recalled that Rosello and 
his friends made fun of women, the LGBTI community, people 
with disabilities, and the obese. "Enough, this cannot be."

The Puerto Rico governor said the artists demanding his dismissal are 
causing an unprecedented institutional crisis. However, Rossello 
insisted that he will remain in office, for he did not commit any crime.

Besides being ignited by a U.S. federal probe into his 
government's corruption, ongoing protests against the governor were also 
sparked by the publication of derogatory, misogynistic and homophobic 
Telegram messages 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/puerto-rico-tito-kayak-arrested-banner-ricardo-rosello-resignation-20190715-0006.html> 
between the Puerto Rican governor and his closest allies, "the Brothers."

In the midst of these events, the U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Pompeo-Launches-Commission-to-Study-Human-Rights-Role-20190708-0010.html> 
will make a stop in San Juan on Thursday as part of his official trip to 
Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico and El Salvador.

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