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The forgotten Americans: Puerto Rico after Maria

Hurricane Maria was the worst recorded natural disaster to hit Puerto Rico. A year later, the Guardian returns to report on how things have changed

9 August 2018

  • La Borinqueña.

    Ricanstruction: how Puerto Rico's artists responded to the storm

  • For a piece about Puerto Ricans talking about Maria

    Photo essay: Puerto Ricans write their untold stories the news didn't cover

  • Claudia Sofia Baez Sola, aged 18; Esteban Rene Baez Sola, aged 15

    Exiled in Florida: the Puerto Ricans struggling to build a new life off island

  • JULY 20, 2018---HATO REY, PUERTO RICO---- Volunteer Camille Mercado Rivera, 19, in the kitchen of Chefs for Puerto Rico as food is prepared to be delivered during the day as part of the World Central Kitchen initiative in Puerto Rico which came to prominence following the aftermath of the devastation left by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. (Photo by Angel Valentin/Freelance)

    My Maria story: six Puerto Ricans on surviving after the hurricane

8 August 2018

  • JULY 19, 2018----UTUADO, PUERTO RICO--- From left; Ledianne Ruiz-Vera, 20, Diana Ivelisse Vera Maldonado, 44, Byron Joxel Ruiz, 14 and Jose Ruiz Gonzalez, 45, and in front of their house with the power line that has been disconnected since the path of Hurricane Maria on September 20, 2018. (Photo by Angel Valentin/Freelance)

    Ten months without power: the Puerto Ricans still without electricity

  • Naomi Klein at her home in Toronto, 2014.

    'I'm not fatalistic': Naomi Klein on Puerto Rico, austerity and the left

  • JULY 21, 2018---ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO--- Benjamin C. Bostick, Ph.D. from Columbia University, and CUNY intern Alondra Cruz Portillo testing water collected in the northern town of Arecibo. (Photo by Angel Valentin/Freelance)

    Another Flint? Why Puerto Ricans no longer trust water after the hurricane

  • JULY 20, 2018---MANATI, PUERTO RICO---- EfrŽn D. Robles and his wife Angelie Mart’ne, owners of Frutos del Guacabo, a culinary agriculture farm, inside one of their hydroponic green houses. (Photo by Angel Valentin/Freelance)

    The story of a recovery: how hurricane Maria boosted small farms

7 August 2018

  • JULY 20, 2018---YABUCOA, PUERTO RICO---- Shaina Ortega 26, kisses her son Keydiel Vasquez, 5, in the yard of the Marta Sanchez Alverio school he attends. (Photo by Angel Valentin/Freelance)

    Despair and anxiety: Puerto Rico's 'living emergency' as a mental health crisis unfolds

    One powerful hurricane robbed millions of Americans of reliable access to basic necessities. Months later the psychological effects are still being felt
  • This historic image from NOAA's GOES-16 satellite shows hurricanes Katia (left), Irma (center), and Jose (right). It was the first time on record that three major hurricanes made landfall at the same time in the Atlantic-Caribbean region.

    Caribbean states beg Trump to grasp climate change threat: 'War has come to us'

    As warming temperatures caused by climate change is strengthening hurricanes, leaders in the region plead with Trump to rejoin the Paris climate deal
  • Inmates in the Bayamon Correctional Complex.

    'This is human trafficking': After Maria, Puerto Rico to move 3,200 inmates to Arizona

    Some warn that the radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s prison system – which was badly hit by Maria – may have dire consequences for inmates’ civil rights
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