The Atlantic: Inside Puerto Rico’s Power Struggle
Amid a confusing tangle of overlapping authorities, shady contracts, and a push for privatization, nobody knows what the end of the island’s electricity and humanitarian crises will look like, or when it will come.
As we get ready to celebrate a new year, most people in Puerto Rico aren’t all that hopeful about what 2018 might bring. This week marks 100 days since Hurricane Maria ravaged the Island, knocking out power to most of the US territory.
The situation in Puerto Rico 3 months after Hurricane Maria:
–Power likely won’t be entirely restored before May
–Hundreds of thousands have fled the island
–FEMA is overwhelmed
–The government still doesn’t know how many people diedhttps://t.co/LYJaQdULC0— Vox (@voxdotcom) December 27, 2017
We applaud all the publications that continue to follow the crisis in Puerto Rico, but unfortunately many people on the Island feel the US Government has forgotten them. In a new interview with Newsweek, the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz criticized Donald Trump’s response saying, “He has failed the moral imperative that any leader of the free world should hold at the highest level.”
We encourage you to read this article from The Atlantic as the reporter takes an in-depth look at what may be ahead for Puerto Rico.
