Excuses that Justify Corruption: Puerto Rico’s Gotham City In Puerto Rico, we have a bad habit of complicating things to justify the unjustifiable. It’s our dangerous tendency to rationalize what is wrong. Sometimes I feel like I live in a tropical version of Gotham City. Sure, Gotham City doesn't exist. But Puerto Rico resembles that fictional city so much. We have normalized corruption and indifference to such an extent that when someone tries to play the role of Commissioner Gordon and light the Bat-Signal, the self-proclaimed public relations specialists and advisors appear to put it out and prevent Batman from doing his job. This is a cultural sickness. Every time someone decides to enforce the law and truly oversee – or simply do their job correctly – whether in a private corporation or a government agency, the "public relations specialists" and "advisors" of conformity appe...