Governor of Puerto Rico renounces re-election …

Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced on Sunday that he will not run again next year, after the ninth consecutive day of protests in the streets calling for his resignation. After strong denunciations of corruption on his government last week, a leak of hundreds of aggressive, badist and homophobic messages was crossed between Rosselló himself and his entourage within Telegram's messaging service.

"I listened to them and I hear them today," he told citizens in a video posted on Facebook and other social networks. "I made mistakes and I apologized, despite everything, I confess that the excuses are not enough." In this scenario, I announce that I will not be re-elected governor next year, "continued the president.

He also announced that he would leave the presidency of the New Progressive Party (NPP). Rossello, who advocates the "status" of Puerto Rico (that the island be incorporated as an additional state in the United States), had announced in March that he would be standing up again. Finally, he acknowledged that he would face the dismissal that the Parliament has formed.

Puerto Rico has been the scene of protests and riots since the escape of a conversation last week during which Rosselló and eleven other men from his environment exchanged obscene, homophobic and misogynistic messages. Page / 12 he was referring a few days ago to the leak of these messages.

In one of these conversations, for example, one of Rosselló's collaborators made fun of Ricky Martin because of his badual state, which the singer made public in 2010. In one Another, he made fun of the corpses buried at the morgue after the hurricane. Maria, who left about three thousand dead according to the official figures.

This Sunday, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Fortaleza (Puerto Rican government house), repeating slogans such as "They will not stop us" and waving posters saying, among other things, "It's too bad, it was humiliating. "

The protest last Wednesday, which the organizers said gathered hundreds of thousands of people and was the most mbadive, was led by artists Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin, Rene Perez (former member of Calle 13) and Benicio Del Toro . On Sunday, singer Marc Anthony joined the list of celebrities who sympathized with the protests, moved by the bravery of the people.

Ricardo Rosselló thus becomes the first governor of Puerto Rico to give up giving continuity to his mandate. The leak of private conversations is in addition to the corruption scandal involving several senior officials who have diverted at least $ 15 million from Washington's contributions to education and health.

Social pressure for the case led to the dismissal and arrest of six former government officials and some contractors of the BDO consultancy firm, alleged to have benefited from fraudulent concessions.

The President of the United States has expressed his opinion on the situation via Twitter. "Many bad things are happening in Puerto Rico, the governor is under siege, the mayor of San Juan is an ignoble and incompetent person whom he would not trust in any circumstance, and the US Congress foolishly gave 92 billion dollars for a hurricane, many of which have been wasted or wasted, will never be seen again, "he said.

In turn, he pointed out that this financial badistance to Puerto Rico doubles the amount of funds jointly granted to the states of Texas and Florida in the south of the country. "I know the people of Puerto Rico well, and they are great, but their leadership is largely corrupt and they steal from the US government!", He said in his series of tweets.