Puerto Rico Five Years Later

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio are joined by Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco, freelance journalist and a contributing writer for Latino Rebels, to discuss Hurricane Fiona’s impact on Puerto Rico and how the island is still recovering from Hurricane Maria five years later. They also talk about the issue of statehood for Puerto Rico, and how artist Bad Bunny is using his platform to raise awareness about corruption on the island.

ITT Staff Picks:

“Puerto Ricans have been forced to be incredibly resilient against a multipronged battering of natural and man-made disasters, but there’s only so much they can take without the necessary resources,” writes Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco, for Latino Rebels.
For The Cut, Bindu Bansinath shares four resources for people who want to help Puerto Rico.
Julio writes about the colonial reality of Puerto Rico and how Bad Bunny is uplifting the island in his latest music video, for MSNBC Opinion.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:22.8	Thank you very much.
0:32.4	The power goes out.
0:33.5	For a lot of people, it's multiple times a day, so they're kind of used to living in
0:38.7	this electric limbo that starts and begins at the flip of a light switch.
0:45.8	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick of podcasts about politics, race and culture.
0:51.8	I'm Maria Inojosa, and I'm Julio Ricardo Vadella.
0:55.0	And today we're talking about Puerto Rico with an amazing journalist on the ground joining
1:00.3	us from Caguas Puerto Rico is Carlos Edil Berrios Polanco.
1:05.4	He's a freelance journalist who focuses on civil unrest, extremism and political corruption.
1:11.5	And he's a contributing writer for our very own Latino rebels, Carlos Yemenido, you know,
1:17.6	before we get to the conversation, we want our dear listener right to know that because
1:22.2	of power outages from Hurricane Fiona, it's kind of a precarious situation.
1:26.2	There's a lot of noise where you are Carlos.
1:29.2	So I just want to say thank you so much for joining us in these really difficult times.
1:33.0	Oh, yeah.
1:34.0	Thank you for having me so much.
1:35.8	So this past Sunday, the entire island of Puerto Rico lost power.
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