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Liberals Treat Puerto Ricans Like Second-Class Citizens, Too.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

President Trump’s naked disdain for Puerto Rico’s struggles might be rhetorically jarring. But it reflects long-standing U.S. policies toward the territory. Guest: Yarimar Bonilla, political anthropologist and author of the book, Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yare Mambonia was born in Puerto Rico.

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She's a professor and a writer.

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I'm in San Juan in a neighborhood called Country Club.

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She says, if you came to this island as a tourist,

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you might not see the island the way she does.

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Your hotel would have a generator.

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Your resort would be clean.

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But in her neighborhood, since Hurricane Maria,

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everything's changed.

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Well, if you walk down the street at night,

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you'll see very little because the street lights are still not working.

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And if you walk down during the day,

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you'll still see a lot of buildings that their paint was eroded after the hurricane.

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And that hasn't been repaired.

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