Puerto Rico Invites Chaos as Debt Moratorium Upends Progress

  • Measure would give governor authority to suspend key payments
  • Republican Senator Hatch says move would be `disastrous'
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Puerto Rico risked upending months-long efforts on Wall Street and in Washington to address the commonwealth’s fiscal crisis by authorizing the government to halt payments on a wide swath of its $70 billion debt.

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