While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Victor Suarez, Chief of Staff for Popular Democratic (status quo) Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, of the Federal enclave of Puerto Rico, announces to the media that Puerto Rico only has 628,000 “dollars” available to make a 58,000,000 “dollar” payment on its public debt scheduled for the next day.

       [added 12/29/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

6/13/2016                   8/5/2016

References:

First DeFault By U.S. Commonwealth In History: Puerto Rico Fails To Make Required Debt Payment | Zero Hedge
www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-03/puerto-rico-makes-only-1-required-payment-public-finance-corporation-bonds-Full-stat

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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