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'I feel indignation, pure indignation': Thousands of Puerto Ricans protest governor

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Tens of thousands of demonstrators descended on Puerto Rico's capital Monday for what was expected to swell into the biggest protest in more than a week of public calls for Gov. Ricardo Rossello's resignation.

Laura Rodriguez, a music teacher from Caguas who arrived in San Juan around dawn, said she was incensed that Rossello has refused to step down in spite of prolonged demands by a broad cross section of Puerto Ricans. Many people at the protest - grandmas in wheelchairs and teenagers, computer engineers and stay-at-home moms

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