PROMESA’s mandate, however, is not only to ensure payment or even weed out corruption. Rather, the Junta, as the fiscal control board is locally known, aims at more profound change: to discipline Puerto Ricans into austerity; transform the modes of extraction in favor of specific capital interests (particularly finance); and accelerate what feminist theorist Silvia Federici has called “the temporal structure of accumulation,” where the aim is “to cash in immediately” from all core practices of social reproduction (Federici and Vishmidt 2013). “The goal,” as journalist Vann Newkirk II (2018) has written, “is essentially to starve off the informal economy and massive public sector that have developed over time in Puerto Rico and replace them with a robust formal tourism industry and private developers, all buoyed by an influx of credit from mainland investors.”