@thelatinonewsletter: By Susanne Ramirez de Arellano January 22, 2025 Opinion for The Latino Newsletter SAN JUAN — Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s latest pro-statehood governor, can kiss the honeymoon period goodbye. Even before the fury of 1.47 million Boricuas in the dark on New Year’s Eve eclipsed her swearing-in, many Puerto Ricans were outraged over the usual suspects in her Cabinet. Her first days in office were no better, rocked by an environmental scandal targeting her in-laws, allegedly quashed by God, and questions regarding inflated numbers in a status plebiscite to suit her political agenda. Despite her assurances that she will govern “for all Puerto Ricans,” González-Colón’s most significant challenge —apart from a fragile electrical grid— is convincing Boricuas that she represents “change” and not the Partido Nuevo Progresista’s (PNP) worst iteration. It won’t be easy. A Republican supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, she won the PNP a third consecutive term with less than 40%. It was a plurality, not a mandate, as she claims. The PNP dominated the Senate and House of Representatives. González-Colón says she won with a “pro-Trump ballot.” She paraded a letter from Trump (and wants to erect him a statue) congratulating her “resounding victory,” but it didn’t do her any favor. On Wednesday, local media reported that Trump was already freezing infrastructure funds for the island.

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