A rising tide of indignation is taking over Puerto Rico. People from all walks of life are calling on the conservative governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, to resign. They have taken to social media and flooded the streets to express their disdain for the governor and his top aides.

Puerto Ricans have not seen this kind of popular, cross-sectoral support since they called for the removal of the US military from the island municipality of Vieques. The outcome of these mobilizations will determine Puerto Rican history for generations to come. What led to this outrage, and where do we go from here?

Puerto Ricans learned over the past month that multiple government agencies were under FBI investigations that included the top brass of the Ricardo Rosselló administration. During a radio interview on June 24, the head of Puerto Rico’s tax collection agency protested that the agency he oversaw was riddled with corruption, controlled by an “institutional mafia” of government bureaucrats who took payments in exchange for favors, such as erasing debts and fines. Last week, the FBI indicted former head of education Julia Keleher and former head of the health insurance administration Ángela Ávila-Marrero. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the publication of a leaked chat that Governor Rosselló administered alongside a group of his top aides.