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Commentary: What comes next for Puerto Rico?

"We woke up!"

That's how my friend Nelly Cruz, a publicist in San Juan, explained the massive street protests that led to the resignation of Puerto Rico's feckless and corrupt governor last month.

A lot of my fellow Puerto Ricans had not expected such an awakening in our lifetimes. There was just too much to overcome - too much political neglect and corruption and graft and abuse of power. Among the Puerto Rican people, there was too much poverty and despair and political lethargy.

And yet, improbably, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans took to the streets, and

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