Puerto Rico Crisis

Showing up in sea tempest attacked Puerto Rico since Maria's landfall, President Trump offered a healthy round of congrats to government help endeavors and expressed gratitude toward the island's representative. In any case, the president likewise recommended Maria was not a "genuine calamity," made an odd and misdirecting correlation with the loss of life from Hurricane Katrina, and clowned about how the sea tempest would influence the government spending plan. “Puerto Rico survived the hurricane," President Trump rightly says, and "Now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making." Hard words, but true.

What's a common location that comes up in discussion when someone thinks of a destination to get away from all the hustle and bustle of the Main land of the United States? Normally Puerto Rico isn't too far away from conversation. Puerto Rico is a beautiful place with the perfect climate and many historical sites to take that getaway that you have always wanted. Today we will discuss major issues in/of Puerto Rico, the significance of this research and data sources, and lastly I will describe the data collected and research found during my inquiry on the region known as Puerto Rico

In the article “Millions wait for the lights to come back on” by Jess Bidgood and Vivian Yee, the newspaper article will inform you about what's going on to the situation by some floridians did not have power well other floridians did. Some people in the area where the storm hit they were struggling without power for essentials. Lots of people in florida salvage everything and anything they could can get and cooked it over gas stoves. Power repair crews were working as fast and and hard as they could for the power to turn back on. Governor rick scott stated is it going to take a while to turn the power back on for the floridians. A very good percent of florida's people after the storm were left without power. The main priority for florida

“People are suffering” he said, “ we need to help”. And he’s right, only 5% of people in Puerto Rico have access to power, only 50% of major roadways are clear, and only 9 hospitals have electricity. His friends and relatives that live there have texted him to tell him that everyone is alive, however the island was left in shambles. “Everything’s destroyed where they are, it's flooded, trees are blown over, houses knocked down, the pictures they sent were even worse than the ones they show on the news. It's really

There is something about other cultures that intrigues people. It is quite fascinating to learn and observe other people ideals and beliefs. It’s cool to get to see the geography and what other countries beliefs, religions, political make-up and a lot more. The area that I will be describing and telling you about is Puerto Rico.

Integrating Puerto Rico into the United States and changing its political status to state would be a great accomplishment on the United States part. Puerto Rico is facing many obstacles not just economically but also government wise, the structure of the government causes many problems to arise. Also the residents of the island are not provided with all the benefits and rights that are provided by the government to the states, Which is why it would be a great upgrade of the island to be integrated as a state.

All of Puerto Rico's northern and eastern coast is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. It stretches for more than 30 million square miles and tends to be the saltiest ocean on Earth. Like the Caribbean Sea, the waters of the North Atlantic surrounding Puerto Rico tend to be warm year-round due to equatorial water flows and the Gulf Stream that forms north of the island. Cities in Puerto Rico's northern coastline include the island's capital, San Juan, as well as Isabella, Arecibo and

It is not only about bringing power back on but about realizing the whole grid needs to be rebuilt. Once again, Puerto Ricans are migrating to the U.S. mainland to escape the horrendous conditions with just the clothes on their backs and are being greeted with open arms in Miami. According to the The Guardian newspaper, over 100,000 people are arriving on flights and cruise ships into Miami, Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale. Many are arriving with heavy hearts about how their situation was handled by the current President, his disrespectful tweets about their governor and with that many people joining the voting population in upcoming elections, we may be seeing a huge change in a state that he won in the 2016 election. Darren Soto, Florida’s first Puerto Rican US congressman suggests that “between 10 and 14% of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million people are considering moving to the US mainland” (Luscombe, 2017).

Since Puerto Rico was first discovered by Christopher Columbus on November 19, 1493, and Spanish colonization ensued in 1508, Puerto Rico has experienced all of these pressures of identity and culture.

After the hurricane, Puerto Rico was left helpless. The island was left devastated. Downed trees lined the island. It's not just downed power lines around the island, but giant transmission towers laying across roadways in the most remote parts of the island. Leaving the entire island without power. The longest blackout in American history. Most Americans do not realize how bad of a situation Puerto Rico is in. It's poor economic status has doomed the territory for many years to come. This image from CNN, shows the percentages of power up all across the island (Santiago 2017). As you can tell many places could not be contacted. Major Carmen Yulin Cruz is very frustrated with the relief efforts. Unfortunately humanitarian efforts are not quickly

Puerto Ricans have a very distinct and complicated history. Their history is unlike any other immigrants who migrated at the United States at any time. Their island became a focus of the United States in 1898, when they won the island as booty in the Spanish-American war. Puerto Ricans residing in the United States have always had the dilemma of having to straddle both the American and Puerto Rican cultures and Spanish and English languages. In my opinion, Puerto Ricans have never had it easy living in the United States. So when I ask my grandparents, and other older generation Puerto Ricans why they decided to migrate from what I thought was "paradise" to

island is confronted with nearly $90 billion of damages. Governor Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico is asking for fairness. They fight the same wars as the United States. To put this into perspective, if a U.S. citizen were to move from Puerto Rico to the mainland, you get the right to vote for their president, House of Representatives, for senators and so on. If you move to Puerto Rico, you lose those rights. In a sense, the people of Puerto Rico have a second-class citizenship. Finally airports are being opened back up. Meaning many Puerto Rican's are fleeing the island to come to the United States to start a new life. These people do not need a passport. The JetBlue solution they call it. All they need is a flight ticket. More than 100 thousand

The island of Puerto Rico was met with destruction at the hands of Hurricane Maria. The storm was the strongest within United States territory in close to a century. Maria thrashed major parts of the Dominican Republic before making landfall on September 21st in Puerto Rico at 11:15 BST in the town of Yabucoa. It clocked in with 155mph winds and knocked out power to the entire nation. All 3.4 million residents were left in the dark.

Not many may know that Puerto Rico is considered to be American territory. Soon people all over America will know because Puerto Rico could possibly become the fifty first state or could be separated from America completely. Most of Puerto Ricans would like statehood 61% to be exact, this citizens would like to be united with America once and for all. There are some Puerto Ricans would like to be free association and the amount is 33% citizens who want a relationship without political territory with a degree of statehood with America. The last percentage are the citizens who want to be independent which is 5%. As the percentage shows most Puerto Ricans would like to become the fifty first state of America and add one more star onto America.

The politics of Puerto Rico takes place in the framework of a republican democratic form of government that is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States as an organized unincorporated territory.