9/5/2023 0 Comments San juan puerto rico map 2019![]() Hurricane Maria left $90 billion in damages and Congress allocated at least $63 billion for disaster relief and recovery operations. "Puerto Ricans are experiencing blackouts almost daily and every single one of those blackouts takes them back to that unforgettable dawn of September, 2017,” said the congresswoman of Puerto Rican descent. ![]() Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., said during a press conference Monday hosted by the Hispanic Federation to remember the roughly 3,000 lives that were lost to Hurricane Maria. “If a hurricane today, category one, hits the island, it will not survive. Regarding reconstruction, some of the most important work, which includes "undertaking mitigation activities to increase resiliency and reduce the risk exposure of vulnerable populations - has not yet begun," according to the analysis. A new analysis by the Center for a New Economy, a Puerto Rico-based nonpartisan think tank, argues that rebuilding after the hurricane is just one of three "systemic shocks" - along with the Covid-19 pandemic and the decadelong financial crisis - that is challenging Puerto Rico.
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