El huracán María, catalogado por el gobernador Rosselló como el peor desastre de la historia de Puerto Rico, ha provocado el desplazamiento de más de 11,000 personas a 179 refugios alrededor de la Isla, mientras la infraestructura de la isla, principalmente de generación de electricidad y carreteras, se encuentra destruida. En Utuado había cinco refugios que albergaban 286 personas siete días después del paso del huracán, pero el gobierno municipal esperaba que la cantidad aumentara tras el arribo de vecinos de las comunidades aisladas.
"Estamos racionando la comida": la crisis humanitaria azota las comunidades aisladas en Puerto Rico
"Estamos racionando la comida": la crisis humanitaria azota las comunidades aisladas en Puerto Rico Iba saltando sobre troncos, deslizándose bajo árboles caídos, sorteando caminos del barro espe...
It is time to see this for what it is: a war. On September 19, Donald Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea; the day before, he and the class he represents had just achieved something similar in Dominica. This war might be undeclared, but it has all the objective qualities of one: a group of people systematically and knowingly killing another group or otherwise laying their lives — including their culture, history, and the very lands on which they stand — to waste. It is shock and awe plus scorched earth tactics. It is affluent, predominantly white people dumping their lethal substances over the heads of poor people, predominantly people of color, with immeasurable beauty eradicated in the process. But is anyone fighting back? Is this a war of two combatants, or only one?
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I visited Dominica in early August this year. Back then, it was still an emerald island. The shores rising out of the sea were, as ever, covered by impossibly green woods. On the slopes of the ...
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