This is happening right now. Puerto Rico marching in protest against the governor of the island and years of corruption.

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crusf2 on July 22nd, 2019 at 15:49 UTC »

A little bit of context.

A series of chats were leaked containing homophobic, sexist, and racist texts. These texts came from the governer and his cabinet. The chat even revealed that money from Hurricane Maria relief was being used for other purposes. They even mocked the deceased of the disaster.

This isn't only about the chats either. The people have been dealing with the administration’s BS for years. This was the straw that broke the camels back.

EDIT: You can search the entire chat log here

http://telegramgate.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

You can look up via keyword as well.

EDIT2: This blew up.

Some additional context and info from this comment thread that goes much more in depth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cezz3k/puertoricans_stand_united_reddit_lets_raise/eu66o52/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

EDIT3: Credit to the photo above goes to Marcos Caballero

jackson71 on July 22nd, 2019 at 17:29 UTC »

Corruption in Puerto Rico has been going on for decades:

https://nypost.com/2017/09/30/inept-puerto-rican-government-riddled-with-corruption-ceo/

For the last 30 years, the Puerto Rican government has been completely inept at handling regular societal needs, so I just don’t see it functioning in a crisis like this one. Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken. And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.

BrackGin on July 22nd, 2019 at 18:27 UTC »

For those not in the know. Here in Puerto Rico, there is a population of about <3.8M citizen. The General Strike*** is estimated to be larger than a Million.

Accounting for those who flew in to participate it amounts to about a 30% of the country's** population. That's quite something!

EDIT: Thank you very much for the support and wanting to be educated on the issue!

To clarify, this is a big BIG number in a per cápita basis. Consider the largest protests in recent years and if measured by population percentage it beats many of them by a large margin. And that is coming from a little colonized island that many quickly forget. Not Venezuela, Not Hong Kong.. My little 100x25 mile island.

**sounds much better than saying modern colony.. but PR is a US territory

*** read u/brandorambo comment to understand the terminology

EDIT 2: I'll be here all week answering and informing those that want to know more until the post dies out or people stop messaging.

DM, Comment, smoke signals.. Choose your poison!