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Why Puerto Rico’s Leadership Upheaval Will Change the Island for Years to Come

August 10, 2019

Puerto Rico has sworn in a new governor, its third in less than two weeks. The leadership upheaval follows weeks of protests over government corruption as the U.S. territory struggles through a financial crisis and the devastation left by Hurricane Maria. Historian and University of Puerto Rico professor Pedro Reina Perez tells Soledad O’Brien the island is “traumatized” and Puerto Ricans will no longer put up with political corruption.

 

 

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