Six on Puerto Rico (still!): ‘Why can’t I have my life back?’: In Puerto Rico, living and learning in the dark; Bernie Sander

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Six on Puerto Rico (still!): ‘Why can’t I have my life back?’: In Puerto Rico, living and learning in the dark; Bernie Sanders on Puerto Rico Neglect: “Do You Think This Would Be Happe... ; Instability Mounts in Puerto Rico Amid Privatization Efforts and Power Authority's Cash Shortfall; South Bronx is new home for some hurricane victims; Puerto Rico Syllabus; Citigroup Drove Puerto Rico Into Debt. Now It Will Profit From Privatization on the Island;


Instability Mounts in Puerto Rico Amid Privatization Efforts and Power Authority's Cash Shortfall

"If this is not disaster economics and this is not setting the stage for commercialization of services that are there to promote equality, I don't know what is."





Puerto Rico Syllabus






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Puerto Ricans are desperate to find safe drinking water following Hurricane Maria´s devastation. Photo Reuters.jpg
Moises Martinez, with help from his grandson, cleaning out his home in San Juan, P.R., in October after Hurricane Maria destroyed it. A federal moratorium on housing foreclosures after the hurricane is due to expire in ea.jpg
El Yunque rain forest in Puerto Rico was severely battered by Hurricane Maria.jpg
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Plantain trees flattened by Hurricane Maria in Yabucoa, P.R. In a matter of hours, the storm destroyed about 80 percent of the crop value in Puerto Rico, the territory’s agriculture secretary said..jpg
David_Dee_Delgado_Gentrification_25.jpgA Puerto Rican and Dominican food cart in front of the Bronx Terminal Market, which opened in a former wholesale fruit and vegetable market in 2009.jpg
Lorenzo Homar, American (Puerto Rican) 1913–2004, 1968.jpg
Puerto Rican flags are now ubiquitous, they were banned from 1947 to 1956 under the Ley de la Mordaza, or gag law, along with all other expressions of nationalist sentiment..jpg
A woman relaxes in the Centro de Apoyo Mutuo in Caguas, which feeds hundreds of people every day. The black and white Puerto Rican flag behind her symbolizes opposition to US-government imposed austerity.jpg
A car passes through a neighborhood with no electricity in the central Puerto Rican town of Utuado, about 65 miles away from San Juan, on October 6.jpg
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