[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Selfie Monkey [@selfie_monkey](/creator/twitter/selfie_monkey) on x 1004 followers Created: 2025-07-24 02:07:24 UTC To say “a deal’s a deal” is to pretend this was a normal transaction between equals. It was nothing of the sort. Puerto Rico didn’t negotiate freely. It has no vote in Congress. It has no representation in the institutions enforcing these debts. It was assigned a financial junta by a Congress in which it has zero elected representation. This is not a contract. It’s a colonial imposition. And colonial debts should not be honored. They should be exposed, challenged, and overturned. And what of the argument that Puerto Rico must pay to restore its credit? That’s another lie. Puerto Rico has no creditworthiness left to protect, and pretending that paying off illegitimate debt will win back investor trust is pure fantasy. Investors will return when Puerto Rico is stable, resilient, and growing—not when it’s bankrupting its people to satisfy hedge fund lawyers. Creditworthiness follows from justice, not austerity. Let’s also dispense with the claim that this is about protecting retirees. If there are pensioners holding PREPA bonds, it is a vanishingly small number—and many of them likely sold years ago. The real players today are distressed-debt buyers who entered the game eyes wide open. They bought cheap, and now they want to extract maximum pain. That’s not a tragedy. That’s the bet they made. What’s actually tragic is the situation on the ground. Families living with daily blackouts. Schools with no power. Hospitals burning diesel to keep ventilators running. Utility workers trying to maintain a decrepit grid with minimal resources. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico has enormous untapped potential in solar energy, in distributed microgrids, in energy justice innovation. But it is being held hostage—by paper. This is what illegitimate debt looks like. It’s not just unsustainable. It’s undemocratic. It’s anti-development. It exists to serve no one but the financial entities that profit from disorder. And the only morally defensible response is to repudiate it. Cancel it. Not just restructure it. Not delay it. Not negotiate for a better haircut. Challenge its very foundation. Demand transparency. Demand accountability. Demand sovereignty. PREPA’s debt is not sacred. It’s not even public. It’s the residue of corruption, privatization schemes, and financial speculation gone unchecked. The people of Puerto Rico did not consent to this. They should not be made to pay for it. Cancel the debt. XX engagements  **Related Topics** [puerto rico](/topic/puerto-rico) [Post Link](https://x.com/selfie_monkey/status/1948203332473917658)
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To say “a deal’s a deal” is to pretend this was a normal transaction between equals. It was nothing of the sort. Puerto Rico didn’t negotiate freely. It has no vote in Congress. It has no representation in the institutions enforcing these debts. It was assigned a financial junta by a Congress in which it has zero elected representation. This is not a contract. It’s a colonial imposition. And colonial debts should not be honored. They should be exposed, challenged, and overturned.
And what of the argument that Puerto Rico must pay to restore its credit? That’s another lie. Puerto Rico has no creditworthiness left to protect, and pretending that paying off illegitimate debt will win back investor trust is pure fantasy. Investors will return when Puerto Rico is stable, resilient, and growing—not when it’s bankrupting its people to satisfy hedge fund lawyers. Creditworthiness follows from justice, not austerity.
Let’s also dispense with the claim that this is about protecting retirees. If there are pensioners holding PREPA bonds, it is a vanishingly small number—and many of them likely sold years ago. The real players today are distressed-debt buyers who entered the game eyes wide open. They bought cheap, and now they want to extract maximum pain. That’s not a tragedy. That’s the bet they made.
What’s actually tragic is the situation on the ground. Families living with daily blackouts. Schools with no power. Hospitals burning diesel to keep ventilators running. Utility workers trying to maintain a decrepit grid with minimal resources. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico has enormous untapped potential in solar energy, in distributed microgrids, in energy justice innovation. But it is being held hostage—by paper.
This is what illegitimate debt looks like. It’s not just unsustainable. It’s undemocratic. It’s anti-development. It exists to serve no one but the financial entities that profit from disorder. And the only morally defensible response is to repudiate it. Cancel it. Not just restructure it. Not delay it. Not negotiate for a better haircut. Challenge its very foundation. Demand transparency. Demand accountability. Demand sovereignty.
PREPA’s debt is not sacred. It’s not even public. It’s the residue of corruption, privatization schemes, and financial speculation gone unchecked. The people of Puerto Rico did not consent to this. They should not be made to pay for it.
Cancel the debt.
XX engagements
Related Topics puerto rico