Thomas Rivera Schatz: “We agree, that burden should not be passed on to the next generation along with a lot of other burdens.”

PROMESA does not need to be amended, it needs to be repealed.

Only then will Puerto Rico truly possess the tools and mechanisms necessary to solve the social and economic crisis.

This Committee should use its jurisdictional power... to enact legislation that will do away with our second-class status as a colony.

PROMESA has exacerbated the economic situation on the island putting a magnifying glass over the 121 years of colonialism.