![]() ![]() ![]() Yo Te Creo spread quickly among a certain class of Boricuas - those who are primarily young, in the metro San Juan area, and working in white-collar or creative jobs. For decades, the island has been battling an epidemic of gender violence fueled by equal parts machismo and complete impunity for perpetrators. (They’ve pleaded not guilty.) Another weekend, another devastating reminder that a femicide occurs in Puerto Rico every seven days. Her partner, former Olympic boxer Félix Verdejo, and another man had allegedly drugged her, assaulted her, and dumped her body over a bridge. Two days later, the body of a 27-year-old pregnant woman named Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz washed up in a lagoon. She had been denied a protective order against her ex-boyfriend despite telling a judge she had evidence that he had stalked and threatened her. Andrea Ruiz Costas was killed, and her remains were burned. In the last week of April this year, not too long before I found out about the page, two horrifying murders took place on the island. No one knew who Yo Te Creo’s organizers were, but everyone knew why the account was created. Attached was a link to a since-deleted Facebook page called Yo Te Creo, which named alleged abusers in Puerto Rico. “ Está circulando una lista de tipos en P.R.,” read the text I received. It felt as if someone had set off a bomb in a small corner of the island. Illustration: Isabella Mellado Photos: Getty Images
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