Published June 28, 2015 10:01pm EDT | Updated July 23, 2015 4:40am EDT

Puerto Rico Governor Says Debts 'not Payable': Report

Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garc�a Padilla said that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, the New York Times reported Sunday. "The debt is not payable," it quoted the governor as saying in an interview. "There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics, this is math." The report said Puerto Rico would "probably seek significant concessions from as many as all of the island's creditors," including up to five years of deferred payments.