Good morning, everybody. We are going to get started. Buenos dias and welcome to the american dialogue. Thank you all very, very much for coming. Tomorrow. At 5 00 p. M. , puerto ricos ricardo rosello, of the new Progressive Party, will no longer be the islands governor. Rosello has come, came under enormous pressure, after highlyoffensive, outrageous and tasteless chat messages between him and close aides were leaked on july 13th. Touching off massive street protests across the island, demanding his resignation. As is the case throughout many Latin American Companies these days with anticorruption movements, jump lifts played a key role, as these messages were published by port partner recoss center for Investigative Journalism. At first rosello resisted but it has been increasingly clear that what has been dubbed as wikileaks was the last straw and the situation was unsustainable. Rosello has named pedro as secretary of state, who if confirmed would then probably step in as rosellos
Good morning, we are going to get started. Welcome to the interamerican dialogue. Thank you for coming. Tomorrow at 5 00 pm, the new Progressive Party, no longer the islands governor. He came under enormous pressure after highly sensitive, outrageous chat messages between him and close aides were leaked on july 13th touching off massive street protests across the island demanding his resignation. As is the case throughout many latin american countries these days with anticorruption movements, journalists played a key role as these letters were published by the center for Investigative Journalism. It first rose cello resisted but it became clear that what had been dubbed as wikileaks was the last straw and the situation was unsustainable. Rose cello has named pedro really lussier secretary of state who have confirmed would then probably step in as rosellos successor. For Many Puerto Ricans the messages exposed the corruption and cronyism of the islands government that together with long