Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In Latin America, dictatorships and insurgencies have often ended in negotiated amnesties.

To end the violence, the violent go unpunished.

Some of those amnesties have been challenged years later, but it's unclear whether unearthing the past is a good way to keep the peace.

And, on average, women make up only four out of ten of Europe's scientists and engineers.

But in Eastern Europe, that ratio is far higher.

We ask what's different there, and how getting more women in the lab is a clear economic

win.

But first...

For two weeks now, protests have been breaking out in Puerto Rico's capital San Juan.

Monday's demonstration was among the largest in the territory's history.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, banging pots and pans, parading with banners, and chanting

Ricky resign. Later, police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds. The target of all this fury is Ricardo Rosseyo, the island's

governor. Earlier this month, a trove of crude and offensive messages sent by the governor and his

closest aides was leaked. The texts even included a joke about the bodies of those killed in Hurricane

Maria, which wrecked the island almost two years ago.

The public was outraged.

On Sunday, Mr. Rosayor posted a video to Facebook. In which he pledged to step down as leader of his party and refrain from seeking re-election.

But he stopped short of resigning as governor, and Puerto Ricans won him out.

The governor is growing increasingly isolated.

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