Just what Puerto Rico needs at this time …. “His name is Alberto Baco – ostensibly the “Secretary” of Economic Development, but actually the mini-me of Donald Trump.”
Mini-me is running amok in the government of Puerto Rico.
His name is Alberto Baco – ostensibly the “Secretary” of Economic Development, but actually the mini-me of Donald Trump.
The entire insular government will soon be overseen by a five-member “Financial Control Board,” which will primarily protect the interests of the hedge funds that appoint them.
The entire insular economy is about to be “privatized.” Water supply, electrical power, schools and prisons, highways, hospitals and housing developments – all of them will soon be owned and operated by US hedge funds and private equity firms.
The island economy is in such a shambles, and US business elites are so shameless, that one current corporate “solution” is the selling of Puerto Rican bodily organs (heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas) to US millionaires.
Into this chaos enters Alberto Baco, the so-called “Secretary of Economic Development” for Puerto Rico.
Where do they find these…
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