Hurricane Colonialism
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The Intercept
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
One year ago, Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, but U.S. colonialism prepared the ground for the deadly crisis.
Journalist Juan González exposes how Wall Street, the bipartisan Washington political machine, and climate change conspired to kill thousands of Puerto Ricans.
The Intercept’s Naomi Klein outlines the neoliberal economic attack on Puerto Rico and a shock doctrine in motion.
Puerto Rican musician Ileana Mercedes Cabra Joglar, better known as iLe, talks about her new song, "Odio" and the struggle for Puerto Rican independence.
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| 0:00.0 | The judge's guess is one of the finest people that I've ever known. |
| 0:07.0 | The finest people that I've ever known. |
| 0:20.0 | Brett Kavanaugh has a reputation as being a prince of a man, frankly, other than this. |
| 0:26.0 | But come on, this is a good decent person I feel for this man's daughters. |
| 0:31.0 | Does anyone really believe the story would have surfaced if Brett Kavanaugh had pledged allegiance to Roby Wade, of course it wouldn't have. |
| 0:37.0 | This all has the whiff of a political smear, masquerading as a sexual assault allegation. |
| 0:43.0 | It was effectively an attempted political assassination of a character. |
| 0:47.0 | Should that deny us chances later in life? |
| 0:50.0 | Even for a Supreme Court job, a presidency of the United States, or you name it. |
| 0:54.0 | How accountable are we for high school actions when this is clearly a disputable high school action? |
| 1:00.0 | It's what happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep. |
| 1:05.0 | That's been a good thing for all of us, I think. |
| 1:18.0 | This is intercepted. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm Jeremy Skahill coming to you from the offices of the intercept in New York City. |
| 1:31.0 | And this is episode 66 of Intercepted. |
| 1:34.0 | I think we did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico. |
| 1:37.0 | We're still helping Puerto Rico. |
| 1:39.0 | The governor is an excellent guy and he is very happy with the job we've done. |
| 1:43.0 | We have put billions and billions of dollars into Puerto Rico. |
| 1:47.0 | And it was a very tough one. |
| 1:49.0 | Don't forget the electric plant was dead before the hurricane. |
| 1:52.0 | This week marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria ravaging Puerto Rico. |
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