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For an alternative view on who is to blame: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/puerto-rico-debt-2017-10 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.busi
by flatline 9y ago
For an alternative view on who is to blame:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/puerto-rico-debt-2017-10 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/puerto-...
A lot of the problem is their lack of autonomy. They are dependent on the federal government yet don't have the power of a US state. It's not so much corruption as desperation that drove them to this point.
- chisleu 9y agoI don't want to dive into alternative histories when everything points to what really happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_government-debt_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_government-debt_c...