Misogynist leak shakes Puerto Rico | Mens …

Thousands of people on Monday called for the resignation of Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló after the escape of a controversial "debate" in which he seems to be exchanging pejorative, misogynistic and homophobic messages, as well as collaborators of his government. .

As night fell yesterday, police dispersed protesters with tear gas. A fire was also reported in La Fortaleza, the governor's residence in the capital, San Juan. According to official sources, 21 policemen were wounded and 5 others arrested.

"We want him to be arrested, his wife and he are jailed for stealing money from the people of Puerto Rico.I want him to be jailed and it is not in the next four years, "said Tatiana Gómez, a young woman quoted by the local newspaper. First hour. "It is time for this city to rise to end this corrupt government," added Lillianet Maldonado to the same newspaper.

The Center for Investigative Journalism published on Saturday nearly 900 pages of the Telegram messaging network containing discussions between Roselló and his collaborators, whom he would have had access to through an anonymous source and who were captured between December 2018 and January. 2019.

The scandal has put the whole government of the Caribbean country, a free state badociated with the United States, in crisis, which is also strongly implicated by the treatment of the disaster left by Hurricane Maria, which caused 3,000 dead, and by the financial crisis that plagues the island.

In the leaks, Rosselló and 12 other men, including government officials, slanderers, politicians and journalists. In one of the messages, the governor called "prostitute" to the former president of the New York City Council, Melissa Mark Viverito.

In another of the dialogues, we read a comment on the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín, in which the government representative before the Tax Supervisory Council badures her that she "salutes it" "shot," reason why the official He filed a lawsuit for threat of death.

"Ricardo (Rossello), you are a badist, you are a badist, you are an abuser, you are a coward and a person who does not deserve to occupy the chair you occupy," said Yulin, known since a few weeks for his affair with President Donald Trump. after Hurricane Maria.

Homophobic comments have also fallen on singer Ricky Martin. Christian Sobrino, government finance manager, said that "Ricky Martin is so badist that he bads men because women do not measure themselves, purely patriarchal".

These expressions are "completely reprehensible and denote the intolerant, arrogant, arrogant, homophobic, macho and violent character and personality of everyone," said Ricky Martin, former member of the Menudo children's group.

"I'm beaten, I admit, but I have to get up," admitted Roselló, in dialogue with a local radio, an opportunity in which he said the best thing to do to get out of this situation is to "continue to work". "They are right, but the people have entrusted me with this task," replied the governor, dismissing any possibility of resignation.

Roselló, 40, apologized last Thursday for his comments in the private group. "This cat has been used to release ten-day tension (…) But none of this of course justifies the words I've written."

In the face of escalating protests and criticism against him, he issued another statement Monday night: "The demonstrations that occurred tonight are an expression I respect and that I have a lot to do with it. Unfortunately, despite the call of most participants in the peaceful demonstration, many others chose to damage the officials and to attack officials who sought to preserve public order in order to defend the security and safety of the people. the rights of all, "he said.

The Teachers' Association, the Puerto Rican Confederation of Workers, the General Union of Workers, the Victory Citizen Movement and the Union of Electricity and Electricity Industry Workers. 39, irrigation (Utier) are some of the organizations that have called for demonstrations.

"We will not stop until we see him resign" or "If Ricky does not leave, we'll get him out," were some of the phrases quoted by those present at the protest.