Puerto Rico

The records indicate 1,427 more people died on the island in the months following the hurricane than would be expected in a normal year.

• By Francie Diep

Hurricane Maria is officially the deadliest storm in modern U.S. history—yet it received just a fraction of the aid given to Houston.

• By Jared Keller

Caribbean countries must transform their energy systems by creating new, greener sources of power.

• By Masaō Ashtine

Teachers participate in a one-day strike against the government's privatization drive in public education, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 19th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is a small town with a long history of integrating Puerto Rican families, but this most recent influx is putting its resources to the test.

• By Martín Echenique

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai proposed the package, which allocates $64 million to immediate rebuilding efforts to restore existing communications networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• By Candace Butera

Despite Whitefish's small size, the energy company was hired to help restore electrical service to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

• By Candace Butera

Ricardo A. Rosselló now admits that the toll "may be higher than the official count certified to date."

• By Kate Wheeling

This is the first time FEMA has offered an air breach.

• By Emily Moon

Even if you ignore the obvious moral necessity for the government to assist Puerto Rico, the government should not ignore its economic and military necessity.

• By Lillian Bobea

How critical disaster studies can teach us what went wrong in Puerto Rico.

• By David M. Perry

Puerto Rico's health crisis was 100 years in the making.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

For decades, Puerto Rico had been suffering the slow but certain violence of modern colonial capitalism.

• By Frances Negrón-Muntaner

The deepening humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico reveals a disaster response that is categorically different from the actions taken in the wake of hurricanes that struck the continental U.S. recently.

• By Kriston Capps

While the hurricane's strength is likely to fluctuate, Maria is expected to pummel Puerto Rico as a Category 4 or 5 storm—the first storm of that strength to hit the island in 85 years.

• By Kate Wheeling

Extraordinary efforts to bolster access to voting and participation in civic life have led to a high level of political engagement in Puerto Rico.

• By Ann Ravel

The history of why the American imagination treats two Caribbean islands very differently.

• By Frances Negrón-Muntaner

With the homeland as neither nation nor state, Puerto Ricans twist in the wind of political whimsy.

• By Jim Russell