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Crítica

Israel Melendez Ayala
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A critical space of political analysis, history and culture. From Puerto Rico, with an eye toward the international.

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In Puerto Rico, Emergency Has Become a Business Model

The collapse of a $5.9 billion power deal has left Puerto Rico without the power it urgently needs.

On August 18, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) terminated a 10-year, $5.887 billion contract with a consortium consisting o...

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Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Has Revealed Who Gets Heard

Water shortages were happening months and in some cases years before they hit San Juan.

The drought Puerto Rico is experiencing isn’t the first. During the 1994 drought, metropolitan San Juan spent months receiving water only every second...

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Puerto Rico’s Drought Did Not Create Its Water Crisis

Rationing is the latest consequence of neglected infrastructure.

On August 5, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA)—the public entity responsible for operating Puerto Rico’s water supply and wastewater systems—turned scarcit...

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America Has Found Many Uses for Puerto Rico, But Equality Isn’t One of Them

Trump’s paper-towel joke captures a century-old relationship in which Puerto Ricans are useful to the United States but remain unequal within it.

As a Puerto Rican, historian and working as archivist, I know an image can preserve history a...

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When the State Lets Memory Rot

From digital archives to endangered collections, the future of cultural memory depends on refusing to let history disappear.

Palestine and Puerto Rico are not facing the same danger. In Palestine, archives, libraries, museums, universities...

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