SAN JUAN — Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rossello decried claims that the U.S. territory would immediately fall into a state of collapse if the government fails to reach a debt-repayment agreement with bond collectors by Monday.

“There is what I think is a false narrative that Monday, the world ends,” Rossello told the Washington Examiner during an interview at the governor’s mansion on Saturday.

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