Puerto Rico

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals the scope of the calamity

Is this America? Entire Island of Puerto Rico plunged into Darkness Again!

The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – Posted by Matti K on April 18, 2018 The power grid has collapsed in Puerto Rico and the entire island lost power on the morning of April 18, 2018. The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately known, but island officials and media confirmed electricity […]

Climate Change

How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

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By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in Puerto Rico – celebrations traditionally run from November to February – but festivities are in scant supply […]

Extreme Weather

If only they Were Houston: 45% Puerto Ricans still lack Power

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US citizens of island “Territory” treated differently from White Mainland by Trump Administration

Puerto Rico

Puerto Ricans aren’t giving up on Christmas

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By Evelyn Milagros Rodriguez | (The Conversation) | – – Leer en español. Some say Puerto Rico has the longest Christmas in the world. Though much of Puerto Rico remains devastated by Hurricane Maria, people are preparing to celebrate the holidays. Lorie Shaull/flickr, CC BY-SA For Puerto Ricans, who are 85 percent Catholic, Christmas starts […]

Extreme Weather

Puerto Rico: On top of Everything Else, GOP Tax Bill is Racist

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, sent a letter to all the members of Congress yesterday, begging on bended knee for a supplemental disaster aid appropriation. That he had to write this letter is a profound embarrassment to the United States, since he had to remind […]

Environment

Sanders pushes Marshall Plan, Renewables, for Puerto Rico as Trump tries to Lower own Taxes

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump went to Puerto Rico and told the hurricane victims there that they were inconvenient since the disaster that left them without potable water or electricity (nearly half still lack it) had put a crimp in the GOP budget. It later emerged that the GOP budget […]

Donald Trump

Remembering Puerto Ricans–Americans–on Thanksgiving

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many Puerto Ricans are spending Thanksgiving on the mainland, away from home and family and friends, as climate refugees. I guess this catastrophe is something that should be on our minds on this day of feasting. Thanksgiving was a northern, regional holiday until 1863 when Abraham […]

Climate Change

Will Fleeing Puerto Ricans ever return home from the Mainland?

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By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada | (The Conversation) | – – Even before this year’s devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics had predicted that the population of Puerto Rico would decline over the next few decades. Have Hurricanes Irma and María accelerated […]