1:43 p.m. ET, July 18, 2019
Mainland Puerto Rican groups that organized for Hurricane Maria relief are now planning protests
From CNN's Paul P. Murphy
The Puerto Rican diaspora in the continental United States is already well-organized; they came together after Hurricane Maria to coordinate their own relief efforts after they felt there wasn't enough being done.
Now they are organizing protests to send a clear message: Gov. Ricardo Rosselló needs to go.
Latinos en Marcha is just one of those organizations. The group's cofounder Kimberly Lamberty is helping organize a protest in Philadelphia on Friday in solidarity with those protesting in Puerto Rico.
Voices del Barrio and a local newspaper Periodico el Maestro are also helping organize.
"The planning started four days ago," she told CNN by phone.
Lamberty said that was the last nail in the coffin.
"To be slapped in the face by our own people," she said. "We've been degraded enough and then to have our own people degrade us in our own way."
She, like other Puerto Ricans, said the scandal surrounding the text messages sparked an anger that's been building for some time.
"It's been years of corruption," Lamberty says. "We're all tired of it. Enough is enough."