Senator Gonzalez Costa discusses La Junta
Senator Gonzalez Costa criticizes the Fiscal Oversight and Management Board (La Junta) as an unelected body with extraordinary powers. He argues Puerto Rico's future must be decided democratically by Puerto Ricans themselves.
On the other hand, the Fiscal Oversight and Management Board, La Junta, represents another fundamental problem.
Decisions affecting the lives of millions of Puerto Ricans have been placed in the hands of an unelected body with extraordinary powers.
From our perspective as an independence movement, Puerto Rico's future must be decided democratically by Puerto Ricans themselves, not by a board named single-handedly by the U.S.
Government.