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DACO Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo resigns after meeting Governor

Torres Montalvo, the elected mayor of Cataño, stepped down as consumer affairs chief following a meeting with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón.

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Hiram Torres Montalvo announced his resignation as Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO) after meeting Governor Jenniffer González Colón.

Torres Montalvo is the elected mayor of Cataño. The facts in hand give the sequence - a meeting with the Governor, then the resignation - but not the reason behind it.

The move leaves DACO, the island's consumer watchdog, without a seated secretary. No cited fact names a successor or a reason for the departure, so the next thing to follow is who the Governor names to fill the post.

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