MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Gov. Alejandro Padilla said in an interview published Sunday that Puerto Rico was about to plunge into a "death spiral" and would probably ask concessions from its creditors.
"The debt is not payable," Padilla said. "But we have to make the economy grow… If not, we will be in a death spiral," he added.
The territory’s debt is estimated at roughly $72 billion. If it defaults, the fallout may hit the US municipal bond market that US states rely on to pay for basic community services. In 2013, the bond market received a jolt with the default of Detroit, the largest city the state of Michigan.
Puerto Rico is expected to publish a report on its financial health on Monday that it commissioned from former experts of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
