To mark the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s devastating landfall, the Village Voice is embarking on a week of coverage investigating how Puerto Ricans are navigating the fallout from the storm, both on the island and on the mainland.
Puerto Rican Evacuees Face New York Housing Crisis: FEMA aid is running out for families fleeing the devastation left by Hurricane Maria (by Emma Whitford)
A Cartoon History of Colonialism in Puerto Rico: A primer on how the island became the last colony (by Omar Banuchi and Ed Morales)
Six Months Later, Tourists Haven’t Returned to Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico is attracting barely half as many visitors since Hurricane Maria (by Istra Pacheco)
Living in the Dark: A Graphic Novela: True tales from Puerto Rico’s ongoing power outages (by Edgardo Miranda Rodriguez and Ivelisse Rivera Quiñones)
Puerto Rico National Park’s Long Road to Recovery: It may be fifty years before El Yunque is fully back to normal after hurricane damage (by Ivelisse Rivera Quiñones)
The New York Roots of the Puerto Rican Fiscal Crisis: The oversight board deciding the island’s future can trace its ancestry back to the city’s 1970s woes (by Aaron Gordon)
The Great Puerto Rico Doglift: The Sato Project is working to rescue Puerto Rico’s street dogs for U.S. adoptions — and to reunite them with their storm evacuee families (by Norbert Figueroa)