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Toure Show

Puerto Rico and Disaster Capitalism

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The nightmare continues in Puerto Rico. I’ll tell you what’s really going on there and why you need to know what disaster capitalism is and how it relates to your future. Featuring Rosa Clemente and Naomi Klein. Let me know what you think. Twitter: @toure. Toure Show Ep 25 Puerto Rico and Disaster Capitalism Host & Writer: Toure Producers: Chris Colbert, Matt Ford, Chris Basil Booker: William Jolley Engineer: Shelby Royston Photographer: Chuck Marcus The House: Cadence 13 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock

0:07.9

Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,

0:14.4

playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.

0:18.3

Here we go!

0:19.3

I'm for a drum and bass!

0:21.3

Oh, just 110 pounds! Tom Bola! Open for fun!

0:27.0

Terms apply 18 plus. Please play safely. Touray Show is usually about exploring success, but this week I wasn't feeling like that.

0:46.0

I saw the power go out in Puerto Rico again and I said,

0:50.0

I got to do something different. I got to use this big platform we've built in a different way.

0:56.0

Sometimes this show is going to be about exploring something harder.

1:00.0

This week I want to look at Puerto Rico through the eyes of people who are very close to the island

1:05.8

And I want to talk about this nightmare they're going through a part of America really a colony of America, has been left for dead so that the rich can take it over and make it theirs.

1:19.0

For months, many on the island have been without power and without water, and for some on the island have been without power and without water and for some on the island without hope.

1:27.2

Good afternoon this is Ronco.

1:28.9

Ronco is a painter.

1:30.5

I live in Puerto Rico. I live in Guainabo. I wanted to hear someone from Puerto Rico tell me how things are there now.

1:38.5

Ronko says in the cities, things are mostly fine, but as you move out to the country, life is really hard.

1:46.0

The people in the country, those people are not doing well.

1:51.0

They basically been forgotten.

1:53.0

Out in the country, there's a lot of horror stories.

1:57.0

I'll give you an example.

1:59.0

It's a family in the town of Hyjuja, which is in the country side, okay?

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