Only a fraction of the island’s 1.4 million utility customers had power on Tuesday morning. The electricity provider said it would take 24 to 48 hours to restore power.
You don’t need to make up conspiracy theories about an island full of poor people that never gets enough federal funding and has shitty infrastructure.
And developers haven’t needed to make all the other beautiful places they’ve taken over unliveable. They don’t need to. They just wave enough money under the right people’s noses. This is America.
Puerto Rico has been a key location for companies that want to build in the US but pay like it’s Mexico. The EPA doesn’t exercise the same oversight in territories like it does in states so the people and land are taken advantage of whenever it’s cheap. Here’s a fun short film from MST3k and it isn’t the only one. Puerto Rico has been abused by moneyed interests for a while now.
They are trying to make it unlivable in order to empty the island for developers (just a theory)
You don’t need to make up conspiracy theories about an island full of poor people that never gets enough federal funding and has shitty infrastructure.
And developers haven’t needed to make all the other beautiful places they’ve taken over unliveable. They don’t need to. They just wave enough money under the right people’s noses. This is America.
Puerto Rico has been a key location for companies that want to build in the US but pay like it’s Mexico. The EPA doesn’t exercise the same oversight in territories like it does in states so the people and land are taken advantage of whenever it’s cheap. Here’s a fun short film from MST3k and it isn’t the only one. Puerto Rico has been abused by moneyed interests for a while now.