Puerto Rico

Krysthina Ortiz refused to get up from a chair outside her school’s main office.

“Mr. Trump, do your job.”

“This is why we have created this GoFundMe page, Solidaridad 59, to raise funds so we can help them economically and their families throughout this difficult period.”

Today I have —if not the honor, then the duty— to describe, firsthand, what it is to live through the aftermath of the worst storm of this brutal hurricane season.

“That’s terrible.”

What the company is saying.

A peek into how public utility contracts are formed.

No, this is not an Onion headline.

If the damage is that great, how much will overall U.S. gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation be affected by the devastation in Puerto Rico?

“It turns out to be fishy.”

The destruction is intense.

“And we will try to forget, but they will continue to suffer.”

The real story is one of hope and agency born of a strong sense of community and self-reliance.

This decision leaves hundreds of students without their sports scholarships as of this December, according to information given to Latino Rebels by various sources.

Las agencias federales no estaban preparadas y el gobierno de Puerto Rico estaba sin dinero para maniobrar, confirman las versiones de todos los protagonistas de la respuesta al desastre.

The new normal?

Dear friends, contrary to what the President would have you believe, Puerto Rican workers are neither lazy, nor do they want everything done for them.

Welcome to the colony.

The same day Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Oppenheimer Funds questioned that the government of the Island could not pay its $74.8 billion debt.

Some students have decided to leave the island, and lose their semester.

The situation is not getting any better.