Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Five years ago just how rickety the electrical grid on the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico was exposed in the aftermath of two powerful Category Five hurricanes, Irma and Maria. It was the latter storm that made a direct hit and caused the most damage to the grid. The blackout that engulfed the (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The United States has suffered 135,000 deaths from COVID-19 and has tens of millions of unemployed and both crises continue now into the fifth month, but nowhere has the economic crisis been greater than in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico.
Governor Wanda Vázquez was the first governor in the (...)
, by DOLS Monique
One year after Hurricane María, Monique Dols looks back at the suffering endured by the people of Puerto Rico — and at their determination to fight for their island.
PUERTO RICO was pummeled by Hurricane María on September 20, 2017.
In the year since, that devastating injury has been followed (...)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Five months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, twenty-five percent of the U.S. colony’s people are still without electricity. No state in the U.S. has ever experienced such a long blackout. Areas with power are plagued with intermittent blackouts.
Wide swaths of the island were (...)
, by DOLS Monique, SELFA Lance
The federal government in Washington and local government agencies in Puerto Rico are eager to project the appearance of the island returning to a pre-Hurricane Maria status quo. But millions of Puerto Ricans know better. SocialistWorker.org contributors Monique Dols and Lance Selfa traveled to (...)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
The humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico continues after almost two months after the hurricanes hit, while the imperialist center in Washington continues to refuse to come to the aid of its colony in anything like an adequate fashion.
The destruction of the hurricanes that hit the island in (...)
, by DOLS Monique
Coming together to overcome FEMA failures. Monique Dols explains how self-organized relief projects of left activists in Puerto Rico show an alternative from below in the face of the federal government’s failures.
A community-run kitchen serves food in Caguas (Daniel Orsini Velez | Centro de (...)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Puerto Rico is facing a massive humanitarian crisis after being hit by two super-strong hurricanes, a glancing blow by Irma and then a direct hit by Maria, both greatly strengthened by warmer ocean water caused by climate change. The crisis is still unfolding two weeks after Maria hit, and (...)
, by Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund
The devastating effects of hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico are still unfolding, but one thing is certain—the island’s most vulnerable communities are likely to be pummeled the hardest and face the longest road to recovery.
Low-income communities of color often face the worst destruction and (...)
, by BERNABE Rafael
Crises raise new, sharp problems that unveil and accentuate both the admirable and the negative aspects of the societies they affect. They also pose new tasks and offer new perspectives on already established plans. The case of Puerto Rico and the effect and response to the strike by Hurricane (...)
Twitter
Facebook