Twelve days of simmering protests boiled over Monday (July 22) as thousands of Puerto Ricans blocked a major highway and launched an island-wide strike to demand their governor's resignation.<br /><br />The moment captured here is the beginning of a massive block of Puerto Ricans preparing to go on strike.<br /><br />"This has never happened in Puerto Rico before," said Angel Rosa, a political science professor at the University of Puerto Rico to media outlets. <br /><br />The massive protest was spurred in part by leaked chat messages between Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and members of his inner circle.<br /><br />The nearly 900 pages of messages included profanity-laced, homophobic and misogynistic comments that "offended almost every group on the island," Rosa said.
