Musical megastar Bad Bunny’s 21-day musical residency in Puerto Rico pumped $200 million dollars into the U.S. territory’s local economy. “It is a rare example of fame being used for good,” writes Adrian Horton of the Guardian. While Bad Bunny’s concerts are making the cash registers ring, his political speeches are making life harder for the 3.2 million U.S. citizens living in the unequal and undemocratic territory of Puerto Rico.

“As one of the island’s loudest cultural voices, Bad Bunny is using his global platform to promote a misleading narrative, one that suggests Puerto Ricans want (political) separation from the United States, when in fact the opposite is true,” writes George Laws Garcia of the U.S. Puerto Rico Statehood Council in D.C.

The artist, whose real name is Benito Anton

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