Hurricane Fiona damage shows Puerto Rico should go its own way

Hurricane Fiona damage, late Biden visit shows Puerto Rico should go its own way

Puerto Rico has endured corruption, bankruptcy, violence and 124 years of U.S. colonialism.

Now, for the second time in five years, a hurricane has devastated the island. In 2017 it was Maria, a Category 4 monster, one of the strongest storms to hit Puerto Rico in nearly a century.

This time it was Fiona, technically a weaker Category 1 storm, but one still powerful enough to thrash the power grid, flood towns small and large, collapse bridges, ruin crops and leave the 3.3 million residents of the island short on water, food, medicine, everything.    

It’s a familiar script. The anguish, the laments, the courage, the realization that Puerto Rico looks and feels helpless, beaten down, with failing political leaders and institutions and little power of its own.

Fiona has stirred up bitter memories of the Trump administration’s insulting treatment of Puerto Rico after Maria.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/hurricane-fiona-damage-shows-puerto-rico-go-way-rcna49809

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