The Federal Emergency Management Agency has finally admitted what everyone already knew: that it was disastrously unprepared for last year’s hurricane season.

Many Puerto Ricans died after Hurricane Maria due to the disruption caused by the storm, but they were left out of the official death toll. Here’s the story of one of them.

Last week, the Trump-Pence administration met with FEMA officials to congratulate the agency on a successful 2017. They did not mention Puerto Rico once, where the death toll following Hurricane Maria is still a point of contention. Even as recent studies cite a number 70 percent higher than had been previously…

La semana pasada, la administración de Trump-Pence se reunió con representantes de la FEMA para felicitar a la agencia por un exitoso 2017. Ni una sola vez mencionaron Puerto Rico, donde el número de muertos tras el paso del huracán María todavía es un punto de debate. A pesar de que estudios recientes citan una…

With less than a day before the official start of hurricane season, Puerto Rico’s perpetually feeble power grid faces the possibility of another calamitous collapse like the one brought about by Hurricane Maria last fall.

When President Donald Trump visited Puerto Rico this past fall after Hurricane Maria, he insisted the island territory should feel proud to have not lost thousands of lives as compared to “a real catastrophe like [Hurricane] Katrina.” On Tuesday, however, a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…

There’s a big, early-season storm blowing itself out in the Gulf of Mexico...There are over 700 known dead so far...That’s nature. Is it God? Most of the dead are the street poor who have nowhere to go and who don’t hear the warnings until it’s too late for their feet to take them to safety. Where’s safety for them…

To watch the U.S. government’s varying responses to Hurricanes Harvey and Maria last year was to compare in real time its separate and unequal view of people in Texas and Puerto Rico. While Texan members of Congress successfully fought for emergency aid in the weeks following the storm, those in San Juan got a…

An AP report on Tuesday confirmed what we already mostly knew about Hurricane Maria: FEMA didn’t do shit for Puerto Rico, even when people were begging the agency for help.

Nearly six months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, many residents of the remote mountain town of Corozal still don’t have electricity or running water. Many are being forced to recycle dirty water just to get by. There’s no sign when Corozal will get the help it needs.

Nearly six months after Hurricane Maria destroyed their homes, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still stranded in hotels, relying on dwindling FEMA aid to keep a roof over their heads.

Branson, MO, is an Ozark tourist spot that boasts a Hollywood Wax Museum, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!, ziplining, various distilleries, and of course Dolly Parton’s Stampede Dinner Attraction. But businesses are desperate for a workforce that can help grow the tourist industry. To find these workers, employers have…

Rosa Colón has been self-publishing comics in Puerto Rico with her partner Carla for ten years. You can see more of her work at rosacolonguerra.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @sodapopcomics

Four months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, we’re finally getting a clearer look into some of the most scandalous parts of the American response to the tragedy.

NPR reported on Monday that FEMA will “officially shut off” emergency food and water aid to Puerto Rico on January 31, more than four months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. According to Puerto Rico’s official status site, 97 percent of the island has water and 92 percent has access to a supermarket. “The…

In the months following Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has seen a massive surge in violent crime. In the first 11 days of this year, 32 people have been killed–double the number killed over the same period in 2017.

Part of the reason for this is that more than 40% of residents still don’t have power. Local authorities…

After 122 days with no electricity, one very happy and very desperate neighborhood in San Juan just got its power back.

But many Puerto Ricans have not been so fortunate. Four months after Hurricane Maria decimated the island, close to 40% of Puerto Rico is still suffering in the dark. And today, the island’s governor …

Nearly three months after Hurricane Maria, vast portions of Puerto Rico are still without power—so when the lights finally come back on, it’s a huge deal.

Most people associate the holiday season with twinkling lights. But months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, tens of thousands of people on the Island are still living without electricity. In the town of Morovis, for example, 90% of the residents haven’t received any federal aid in the 90 days since the…

The small Puerto Rican village of Mariana was especially hard hit by Hurricane Maria. For weeks, there was no sign of government help. The townspeople, desperate for any aid, painted a giant SOS sign in the street in hopes that someone would come to their rescue.