Thread by @BenjaminNorton

The US government's colonial unelected Fiscal Oversight and Management Board (also known as la junta) is trying to exploit the ongoing protests in Puerto Rico to further curtail democracy on the island and tighten the colonial noose around its people
theintercept.com/2019/07/24/pue…

Now that Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló is resigning, Wall Street's Journal is openly calling for a new puppet to replace him who will hand over the country on a silver platter to the US government's colonial control board (la junta)
wsj.com/articles/puert…

Pay close attention: Wall Street's Journal doesn't dislike Ricardo Rosselló because of his disgusting comments; they dislike him because he pushed back against the US gov's colonial control board, and wrote "Dear oversight board, go fuck yourself"

Things could get even worse now

The editorial board of Jeff Bezos' Washington Post joined Wall Street's Journal in calling for the US government's colonial oversight board (la junta) to be "strengthened."

The Bezos Post also demanded more "Aggressive law enforcement" in Puerto Rico
washingtonpost.com/opinions/puert…

When Puerto Ricans refer to the US gov's colonial Financial Oversight and Management Board as "la junta" (a word for dictatorship), it's not hyperbolic: The official website URL is juntasupervision.pr.gov

The US gov openly uses this neocolonial rhetoric—it doesn't try to hide it