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Puerto Rico is a diverse island filled with beautiful beaches, lush rainforests, colorful, colonial-style buildings, and ...
Puerto Rico is an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea consisting of a main island and a handful of smaller ones. It is part of the Greater Antilles, a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean ...
Hurricane Maria lashed Puerto Rico with heavy rains that were amplified by the territory's hilly, rocky terrain.
Andrew Gillum teaches Donald Trump a geography lesson: “Puerto Rico is in the United States” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley referred to Puerto Rico as “that country ...
Puerto Rico’s electrical infrastructure was deteriorating from a lack of maintenance even before the one-two punch of Irma and Maria. Five days later, most of the island is still in the dark.
See the scale of Puerto Rico’s flooding by Hurricane Fiona in maps, photos and videos.
Another issue slowing recovery? Maps—or lack of them. While pre-Maria maps of Puerto Rico were fairly complete, their level of detail was nowhere near that of other parts of the United States.
While island officials continued to call for aid this week, organizations delivering relief are asking for help with a lesser-known resource: map data.
Former New York Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch writes that Puerto Rico, like Detroit when it was struggling, may find that ceding authority to an outsider is the best route to rebirth.