“An upcoming video produced by The Intercept follows our guest, Naomi Klein, on her recent trip to Puerto Rico. Some of the people she speaks with include two environmental activists, Jesús Vázquez and Katia Avilés, who talk about food security after Hurricane Maria. For more, we speak with Naomi Klein and with Puerto Rican anthropologist…
“Since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico last year, more than 24,000 students have left for the U.S. mainland and more than 400 came to Hartford, Connecticut, where a third of residents identify as Puerto Rican. Now, Hartford is working to support the students amid a series of budget difficulties. Ivette Feliciano reports on the challenges…
“Data from the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics published by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday confirmed earlier data analyses from Latino USA and the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI) that excess deaths on the island for the last part of 2017 —when two hurricanes struck the island— were greater than the same time period in 2016.” Read the rest of…
“Five months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, swaths of the island still have no electricity, while food and water supplies have been slow to arrive. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, has been hit by a series of scandals, after it was revealed that only a fraction of the 30 million meals…
“Hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico have been displaced because of Hurricane Maria, with nearly 4,000 families finding temporary shelter in hotels on the mainland. But funding for their stays under FEMA’s Transitional Shelter Assistance program is set to expire in March. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano traveled to Hartford, Connecticut, to speak with…
“Nearly half of Americans don’t know that Puerto Ricans are US citizens. But they are and have been since 1917. Watch why Puerto Rico won’t have power for months: http://bit.ly/2DBCPVp Read about Puerto Rico’s latest bid for statehood: http://bit.ly/2DGlz4L. As residents of the US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans have US passports, can travel…
“Four months after Hurricane Maria, about 450,000 of 1.5 million electricity customers in Puerto Rico still have no service. Blackouts regularly occur for hours at a time, even in San Juan. Special correspondent Monica Villamizar reports on the emergency efforts to restore power, and how some have taken matters into their own hands as outdated…
“When President Trump visited Puerto Rico, about a week-and-a-half after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, he made the implication that the hurricane wasn’t a “real catastrophe” like Hurricane Katrina. As evidence, he pointed to the official death count—at that time only 16 people. Today, the official death count is at 64 people, but given the vast destruction…
“Lin-Manuel Miranda has a new role: as an emerging political activist. The Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, composer and actor is calling on Congress to do more to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, which struck the island two months ago. Miranda sits down with John Yang to explain what…
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón provide an update on Hurricane Maria recovery during a news conference in D.C.