Que Viva Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, an island just south of Florida and next to the Dominican Republic on the coast in the Caribbean Sea, is facing some major political turmoil right now. Thousands of Puerto Ricans have filled the streets of San Juan protesting the recent messages leaked on July 13 to the public. These messages, written by Governor Ricardo Rosselló, contained some heavily homophobic, violent, and hateful words. Rosselló sent over 899 messages to his inner circle (11 people in total), joking about assassinating his political opponents and also added anti-gay comments. Before I get into more details about this scandal, I'm going to give a quick rundown on Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was once under the control of Spain, before the late 1800s. Under the Spanish Empire, it was filled with the sugar and tobacco industry that brought upon the wealth of Spain. When the indigenous populations, the Taíno, were almost wiped out unfortunately by smallpox Spain began to import t...
