https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/24/puerto-rico-ruined-infrastructure-and-a-refugee-crisis/
Only 11% of schools are open, the rest waiting for a privatisation plan. The teacher's Union has been pointedly excluded. Ms DeVos has already visited and approved the plans.
Electricity is STILL out over half the island. Many Josiah's don't have power and have been forced to cremate bodies from the storm due to the inability to keep them in cold storage. The 'unofficial' death toll is nearing 500 and is likely to go much higher.
Ten percent of the population has moved away in the 10 years before the recent hurricane and another ten percent are joining them since it hit. Most don't plan to return.
Depopulating the island to turn it into a playground for tourists and the rich seems to be the disaster capitalist approved 'recovery' plan.
Meanwhile, Cuba had their power back on within a week or two, most areas never lost it- this down to a series of 1800 micro grids that provided resilience to the system. This approach is of course opposed in Puerto Rico by the centralized power company monopolists.
In addition, Cuba provided insurance payments to Farmers and residents affected by the disaster. Puerto Rican residents are still waiting for anything like such assistance.
The simple fact of the matter is that 'modern' America is showing its true colors- and they suck.
