Debt originally amounted to$ 70 billion plus$ 50 billion in pension obligations. Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority separately owes more than$ 9 billion.... Carlos Giusti/ AP, FILE People protest the Debt Adjustment Plan outside the federal court where it is being considered by bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor Swain in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov.... Decades of mismanagement and excessive debt led Puerto Rico to file for bankruptcy in 2016 under the Puerto Rico Oversight Management Economic St