There is never a perfect time to announce you are virtually bankrupt. For Puerto Rico, however, this week was a better moment than most. On Sunday, the island’s government released a long-planned economic report written by Anne Krueger, a former World Bank chief economist, which declared that the territory was in fiscal crisis. As governor Alejandro García Padilla put it, the island’s $72bn debts are now “not payable”.
無論什麼時間宣佈你事實上已破產都不合適。然而，對波多黎各而言，早宣佈或許更好。不久前，該島政府公佈了由世界銀行(World Bank)前首席經濟學家安妮•克魯格(Anne Krueger)撰寫的一份準備已久的經濟報告，報告宣佈這塊美國領地陷入了財政危機。正如波多黎各總督亞歷杭德羅•加西亞•帕迪利亞(Alejandro García Padilla)所言，該島目前有720億美元債務「無法償還」。
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