Most wore red, white and blue, the colors of the Puerto Rican flag, while Lopez Rivera and many of his supporters wore black. “They look at Puerto Rico as just a place to go to look at sexy bikinis and drink $2 beers. “I would like to see Puerto Rico become a state,’’ said Sonia Vargas, 51, a Brooklyn-born bookkeeper who now lives in Ohio. “From today going forward, the federal government will no longer be able to ignore the voice of the majority of the American citizens in Puerto Rico,” Puerto Rico Gov. Puerto Rico has more than $120 billion in debt, a crushing load that has given rise to a new wave of activism.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 11, 2017 23:14 UTC