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Bad Bunny's Homecoming Turns Into a Protest Rallying Point as His Tour Reaches Its Final Night

Bad Bunny and opening act Chuwi used the show to spotlight island utility problems and urge fans to join a protest against Proyecto Esencia.

Summary by Latin Times
Bad Bunny's tour-closing Hiram Bithorn shows opened with an emotional speech on Puerto Rico's water crisis — and a protest call for the finale night.

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Artist Bad Bunny this Sunday turned the closing of his world tour 'I should have thrown more photos' in Puerto Rico into a clamoring cry to defend his country from gentrification, corruption and colonial status.

Bad Bunny closed his tour in Puerto Rico I should have thrown more photos as if it were a rally. Salsa, perreo, tears and a speech that goes straight to the wound of the island. A closure that looked like a rally, not a bis The last show at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, picked up by EFE, started with the Chuwi band and a video that encouraged young people to mobilize against the cuts of water and light. The verses of 'The move' sounded …

Bad Bunny put the closure on DEBÍ TOR Más FOToS World Tour this Sunday with a concert full of demands, guest artists and two exclusive songs. Puerto Rico's flag waved at Hiram Bithorn Stadium insisting that "it's not normal for the people to go out every night, that there are families without water." "Corruption is not normal."

"This chaos, this disaster, they have created it expressly to try to play with our emotions, to try to make us give up, to leave, and continue to sell the island piece by piece and make a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans," said Bad Bunny on Saturday during the concert at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan. This strong criticism was directed at the Esencia project, which envisages the construction of a luxury tourist mega-complex in the south…

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Ara.cat broke the news on Sunday, August 23, 2026.
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