“The grid has become the poster child of the decay of the colonial system, its institutions and a very vulnerable population," Ortiz García said. Hurricane Maria knocked out power to Puerto ...

Experts have been sounding the alarm on Puerto Rico since hurricane Maria decimated what was already a fragile and vastly underfunded medical system. They’ve been arguing that it’s on the ...

One year ago, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. After the storm, the island’s healthcare system collapsed. While some clung to the few services available, others invented their own ...

“The system ... to hit Puerto Rico in less than four months. The previous one happened on New Year’s Eve. Puerto Rico has struggled with chronic outages since September 2017, when Hurricane ...

Yet another hurricane has devastated Puerto Rico days before the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria—the storm the island is still recovering from. On September 19, Governor Pedro Pierluisi ...

It’s the latest in a series of outages hitting Puerto Rico since September 2017, when Hurricane Maria hit the island and damaged the power grid that crews still struggle to rebuild, the AP reported.

Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico when ... Looking to create a better long-term support system for Puerto Rico through the arts, Chicagoans Janice Aponte and Erica Sanchez founded Arte al ...

It's been exactly one year since Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm, resulting in nearly 3,000 deaths It’s been exactly one year since Hurricane Maria wreaked ...

Puerto Rico has been devastated by Hurricane Maria, a powerful Category 4 storm that also impacted several islands in the Caribbean. It was the strongest storm to make landfall in Puerto Rico in ...

The blackout started at about 12:40 p.m. on April 16, when the Puerto Rico Governor's Office said a failure in the transmission of the electrical system ... more than 80%. Hurricane Maria in ...

(ATR) Hurricane Maria, the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico since 1928 ... "The information we received is not encouraging. It's a system that has destroyed everything it has had ...

Colorectal cancer diagnoses in Puerto Rico dropped significantly ... Limited healthcare access during Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, and COVID-19 likely delayed cancer detection, worsening ...