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 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Union leaders called off island-wide protests on Tuesday as a special commission looked for answers to a fiscal crisis that has partially closed the government and eroded the credit rating of this U.S. territory.
Though some 150 protesting teachers blocked traffic at a port in San Juan where cruise ships dock, Puerto Rico's three biggest unions — which represent most of the more than 95,000 furloughed public employees — instead urged politicians to resolve the crisis, now in its ninth day.
The commission was expected to announce its recommendations Wednesday.
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