Puerto Rico’s power struggles | MIT Technology Review

By 2016, Puerto Rico is no longer able to pay its bills. Since the law that gave the American judicial jurisdiction on NGOs made Portorico “possess” congress, it fell to the Federal Legislative Council – which the delegate -elect on the island did not have any vote – to determine what to do. The Congress approved the law of supervision, management and economic stability in Portorico – which was directed to Promesa, or “promise” in Spanish. A financial monitoring council appointed by the White House, with veto authority, has established all spending by the elected government on the island. The Board of Directors had a authority on how to use the funds that the regional government gathered in taxes and utilities bills. It was a major shift in the independence of the island.

Juan R. Torila, the late Federal Appeal Judge, in an unpopular paper in a historic newspaper in a historic newspaper, “The United States cannot continue its denial by not accepting that its relationship with its citizens who reside in Portorico is a terrible violation of their civil rights.” Law review at Harvard University In 2018, which raises legislation as an “other colonial experience”. “The democratic deficit in this relationship submits suspicions of its legitimacy, and requires that it be attacked and corrected forward with every deliberate speed.”

Hurricane Maria hit a little more than a year after the passage of Bromisa, and according to the official figures, dozens were killed. This proved that it is just a start, however. With months on the ground without any electricity and forced more people to go without medication or clean water, the number of deaths rose to thousands. This will be 11 months before the network regaining the entire network, and until then, the interruptions and destroyed electrical offers of devices were worried.

The intermittent service was not the only distinctive feature of the new era after the great Portorico blackm it. The Financial Control Council – which is referred to as critics referred to as “la junta”, using a term usually dedicated to the most famous military dictatorships in Latin America – as the best way to its dissolved for the troubled state.

In 2020, the Board of Directors approved a deal for Luma Energy-a joint venture between Services Quanta, the Energy Infrastructure Company in Texas, and its Canadian competitor ATCO-to distribute and sell electricity in Puerto Rico. The contract was granted through the process that the advocates of clean energy and anti -corruption have said that it lacks transparency and made an agreement with few penalties for the weak service. He was almost immediately immersed in the controversy.

A fatal diagnosis

Even this point, life was looking for Suárez vázquez. Her family came out of the aftermath of Maria without any loss of lives. In 2019, her children were outside the home, and her younger son, Edgardo, was studying at an aviation school in Siba, two hours northeast of Goyama. Creativity. During regular health examinations at school, Edgardo was considered appropriate. Gift bags began to appear at home from US Airlines and Jetblue.

“They were flirting with him,” says Suarez Wozkuiz. “He would have graduated with a great job.”

In that summer 2019, Edgardo started complaining about abdominal pain. He ignored her for a few months, but he promised his mother that he would go to the doctor to examine him. On September 23, I received a call from Godson, a hospital radiologist. Unwillingness to the burden of his mother is anxious, Edgardo went to the hospital alone at 3 am, and the tests revealed three tumors interlocking in his intestine.