Puerto Rico Formally Exits Bankruptcy After Public Debt Restructuring



Puerto Rico has formally exited bankruptcy, completing the largest public debt restructuring in U.S. history seven years after it announced it was unable to pay its debts. NBC News’ Nicole Acevedo breaks down how restructuring could impact Puerto Ricans.Β 

Β» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
Β» Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews

NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.

Connect with NBC News Online!
NBC News App: https://smart.link/5d0cd9df61b80
Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621
Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC
Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC
Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC

#PuertoRico #Bankruptcy #Debt

source

44 comments

  1. I always feel sad that we almost never care about giving these people the equal voting rights they have been lacking. Several US territories are always in such a limbo. At least Puerto Rico is populous and close enough (e.g. as compared to Alaska), and Puerto Ricans can always travel freely into and out of the States without any visa.

  2. we need comunism in puerto rico πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·

  3. Wall Street scavengers bankrupted Puerto Rico.

  4. Please, please, please πŸ™ can we learn how to pronounce Puerto? It's Puerto NOT PORTO.
    ALSO Costa Rica is Costa, as in Costco, NOT COASTA.
    Thank you.

  5. Trump does the same thing, every six years…

  6. Now the Puerto Rico goverment wants to create a TAX TO THE SUN πŸ‘€, to every person that own a sun producing energy system. Most of the comments down below are morons that don't live in the Island.

  7. They need to become their own country

  8. All puetoricans I have known at California are on section a getting food stamps Living la Vida loca and milking taxpayers…

  9. another f grade on particularly

  10. Puerto Ricans should go solar.

  11. who gave him the money us

  12. Dicelo al gobierno pillo que tienen. Populetes y Penepestes todos son unos pillos!

  13. Yeah πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ’ƒπŸ•ΊπŸ’ƒπŸ•Ίβ€πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·

  14. We have highest taxes , less police, highest electric and water "service". No retirement, goods and services all time high and political corruption is rampant less jobs and with new labor laws less job security. We're screwed.

  15. "Call on the Lord in the day of trouble,
    and He will deliver you."
    Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β  – Psalm 50 :15

  16. No mention that most of Puerto Rico's debt was due to the US government's continual practice of changing the rules under which the island operates based on little more than lawmaker's whims.

  17. Puerto Rico has historically been preyed on by predatory lenders locking it into brutal cycles of debt.

  18. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· Puerto Rico to fight their independence next❓
    Inspired by Ukraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦…..

  19. P.R. people always looking 4 a hand out they should take care of their own be independent don't be part of U.S.A., , NEED TO OWN YOUR OWN COUNTRY…

  20. Free Puerto Rico from Amerikkka!

  21. This is probably going to end up bad for the Puerto Rican people, the ones that own these bonds are just already rich aholes

  22. Getting ready to become a state ,you see Biden administration just floods the system with money and you can't keep track where the money goes, they probably bailed out Puerto Rico the last i heard was 90 billion in debt ,USA just inherited billions of dollars in hurricane damages if it becomes a state

  23. Can I get a reconstruction on my debt ?

  24. Someone needs to write down what they did America will need it soon !

  25. She all the money that y'all got you just sky free? Must be nice πŸ‘ I wonder what the world would look like if ever One took money and don't pay it back🧐😲
    #Mayhem,chaos

  26. I feel bad for the fleecing that P.R. resident get due to their incompetent government. We have many new P.R. residents here in Florida and over all they appear to be very jovial, family oriented folks who are very happy to be here yet are still proud of their homeland. I welcome them and if they can be sparred the Liberal brainwashing they will do very well here.

  27. lovely island, looking forward to visit again

  28. Even with war added to Brandon’s long list of failures, his voters still justify and support his spineless incompetence.

  29. Shout out to George Floyd on 661 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals!

  30. Support a Sovereign and Independent Puerto Rico, End US Colonialism! πŸ‘ŠπŸ˜Ž πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·

  31. America politics are so BASIC, no idea the common day to day struggles Puerto Ricans go through SMH, wake up Gringos & grant pr statehood, taxation without representation!

  32. Grant Puerto Rice, DC and the territories Statehood!

  33. Doesn't matter. PR government is as corrupt as any other Western, Latin government in Central or South America.
    They'll do it all over again in the coming years. They'll keep coming to the Federal gov't with their hats in their hands, looking for debt relief.
    Puerto Ricans have fled to the mainland looking for work and prosperity, only to buy into Socialist-Democrats' promises of "free stuff" and looking to profit from the racial grievance industry.

  34. The American and the CCP have held talks for seven hours these days. What are they talking about? That is, the CCP sold Putin of Russia, and China and the United States began to cooperate again. The United States clamored to sanction the CCP, but in fact it began to appease again for the sake of profit. Do you understand? Chinese companies have begun to accept corporate scrutiny from the United States, diplomacy has begun to turn, and the CCP’s internal propaganda has begun to say how many military facilities Russia has annihilated, and it has begun to cut itself off from Russia. America, is your justice built on interests? You are raising tigers and planting a big bomb for the future of America and the world.

  35. Next thing you know they're going to want Statehood.

  36. What a disgrace on our people πŸ˜’