‘Wanted” posters with my picture on them recently appeared all over the campus where I teach. As one of the seven members of Puerto Rico’s financial-oversight board, I am, the posters claimed, a “mercenary” who “demands the blood of Puerto Rican people to pay rich Wall Street bondholders.”
If the anonymous authors of the sepia-toned, Wild West-style posters could only meet a few of the “rich Wall Street bondholders,” they might see my colleagues and me a little differently. Perhaps a virtual introduction will suffice.
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