Puerto Rico Devastation

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Chris Hayes / Naomi Klein podcast (with transcript) on Puerto Rico.

Why Is This Happening? Tracing the origins of the Puerto Rico disaster with...

NAOMI KLEIN: I mean honestly I hesitate to even just call it a disaster which makes it sound like there’s no agency in it for anyone. We’ve been talking about how the economic strangulation of Puerto Rico exacerbated the death toll whether it was in healthcare or electricity, water, but that strangulation is just intensified with post-Maria, right? I don’t think this is really just about Maria. I think Maria was an accelerant to this process that was already underway and that is ongoing.