{"id":104001,"date":"2019-07-31T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/31\/obscene-texts-and-corruption-the-downfall-of-puerto-ricos-governor-podcast\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:00:31","slug":"obscene-texts-and-corruption-the-downfall-of-puerto-ricos-governor-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=104001","title":{"rendered":"Obscene texts and corruption: the downfall of Puerto Rico&#039;s governor &#8211; podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mass protests triggered by leaked text messages have led to the resignation of Ricardo Rossell\u00f3. Oliver Laughland discusses his time on the island. And: Larry Elliott on why sterling is at a 28-month lowHundreds of thousands of people have lined the streets of Puerto Rico over the past couple of weeks in some of the largest demonstrations in the US territory\u2019s history. They began in response to hundreds of pages of leaked text messages between the governor, Ricardo Rossell\u00f3, and 11 members of his inner circle, which made homophobic and sexist jokes and mocked the victims of Hurricane Maria.However, the problems go further back than July. The Rossell\u00f3 administration has been plagued by allegations of corruption and mismanagement during the response to Hurricane Maria. Shortly before the messages were leaked, the FBI arrested five former government officials and contractors accused of misappropriating millions of dollars in federal funds given to the island after the disaster. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2019\/jul\/31\/obscene-texts-corruption-ricardo-rossello-downfall-puerto-rico-governor\" target=\"_blank\">Obscene texts and corruption: the downfall of Puerto Rico&#039;s governor &#8211; podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass protests triggered by leaked text messages have led to the resignation of Ricardo Rossell\u00f3. Oliver Laughland discusses his time on the island. And: Larry Elliott on why sterling is at a 28-month lowHundreds of thousands of people have lined the streets of Puerto Rico over the past couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}