The Battle For Paradise, Puerto Rico

The battle for paradise, Puerto Rico

 After the onslaught that Puerto Rico suffered with the passage of Hurricane Maria, there was little hope for most Puerto Ricans. This, since there were none of the essential services throughout the island. In chapter 1 he tells us about a particular case. For the people of Adjuntas it was totally different, within all that gloom was a small space of hope thanks to “Casa Pueblo.”A mainly ecological and community center. For his starting years for Puerto Rican citizenship, "Jipi’s eccentricity seemed somewhat.”In this first chapter, Klein presents a really functional model, the ecological model. The since the country was in a state of "shock" after the onslaught.

A criticism that is about it is about the vulneranility in the electrical system, and a story by the biologist Arturo Massol Deyá counts about how it has been advocating more renewable energy for years, since what was experienced after Hurricane Maria could occur. Massol Deyá mentions an important point: “This general collapse now allowed him to make the proposals in favor of a radical and fast transformation to renewable energy."

Another important point would be Puerto Rico’s debt, as mentioned in the book "Psoibly illegal" that has led the island to a neoliberal state. After this wave of disaster, citizens are tired of government agency. Year after year, since the 1970s, "the universal lesson of the storm is that now it is not time to rebuild what there was, but for the transformation into what could be" this appointment being a starting point.

Where each Puerto Rican, tired of abuse, creating a thought of desire and change in the dependency that exists with the United States.

This being an ideal, transformative thought, to see that Maria leave us a hope for a transformation both in debt and austerity. Move Puerto Rico away from the capitalist system with the government, creating self-sufficiency. According to Massol Deyá "we see the crisis as a time to change" .  Of course the people want to do justice, wishing them to be heard. Examples for this case are the national strike on May 1 of this year, where a whole country joined justice, including debt. All kinds of sectors, from students to the working class fighting for the same purpose, not paying a debt that was not created by them.

After this onslaught, there were many political approaches such as the privatization of the electrical energy system, school closures, foods in food, with water and gasoline. Puerto Rico is a country that mostly receives from the port of Jacksonville, FL wagons with food and gasoline. The precarious situation that occurred, led the Puerto Rican people to despair, this since the supermarkets remained empty, or limited the amount of foods that could be purchased. Gasoline stalls under the same conditions, and the mere fact of staying hours in the long lines for only a limited amount of fuel were key points for that despair.

How a bad organization and administration in the villages, by the mayors and their assistants, caused dozens of food boxes to be total loss since they did not distribute them as it was properly. Or a more outrageous example, the thousands of water bottles found in the old Roosevelt base in Ceiba. The way in which the government always seeks an excuse to say that it was not aware of what was really happening.

In March of that year, Puerto Rico, hosting an event where there was a multimillionaire conference, talking about how the island will be excellent to be “the epicenter of this market of thousands of billion dollars."In fact, Yaroon Brook made the approach of how much she paid in California vs. Starting from this point, this is where the famous contributory evasion is being given. The Puertopians, giving way to their own ideals, as if it were simply buying a piece of land and starting to create their own cities. Therefore, wanting to privatize for the person who bought it can keep it, can provide a good to citizens. From here, implying that privatization is an effective way. But it should be noted that not everything that is privatized works, using the example of Puerto Rico Telephone Company, which after being privatized has not changed in many aspects.

A story that attracts attention is like in the Orocovis community the Cartagena teacher seeks to raise awareness and impact children and young people through agriculture. These arrived through the mountain to help clean and left for their homes with a few of those foods harvested for their relatives. The way in which the government together with the Department of Education seek to continue with the closure of schools, thus creating an inequality in the less fortunate sectors. This school is a living example of the aforementioned, bringing with him the story of how this set of characters has tried to close the school several times.

Additional, as since the past it has been allowing most foods to be imported. This unleashed the vulnerability of food, as despite having our own crops, they are exported or used for other processes as experimentation. Instead of being invested in escorts, trips such as the final of Soccer in Russia, diets, among others, money must be invested in lands that have a fertile floor, where you can sow and get crops for the island, without the need fordepend completely on what comes outside. Being Maria, a teaching element of how vulnerable is the food supply.

Like the Orocovis community, after the fraudulent contract between the government and the American company called Whitefish Energy, many citizens began to energize the communities. Both former Electric Energy employees, engineers or people and electricians began to join forward. Situations such as energizing, cleaning roads or seeking aid is when it falls into account that the government does not kill citizens as a priority. For example, a story of an acquaintance tells how in a community they built contributions and materials, joining and among all cleaning, looking for ways to get the materials to have light after months. But that’s not all, a community where they hadn’t even happened to provide water or help, where they were practically completely marginalized.

When passing from the years, the island underwent experiments, to use the Puerto Ricans as “laboratory rats” bringing with them experiments such as in the 60s as caused a large mass of sterile women, also the contraceptive pills andThe famous Navy installed in Vieques. Experiments that have brought with them a chain of diseases over the years. And currently, as Monsanto uses part of Juana Diaz and Isabela for his experiments in food products.

Key points throughout the book are such as diaspora, austerity, the colonialism by which the Puerto Rican people have been subjected for decades for decades. How politicians seek other priorities, which affect the country, also as their cheap ideologies are no longer working in citizenship. A Fiscal Control Board, with seven members who were taxes, earning a “salary”, and exercising control in the economy. Imposing rules and a government that seeks to cut the funds of the University of Puerto Rico, making cuts in excress, raising the registration costs and cost of credits. Using the excuse that these cuts contribute to debt. How what is supposed to be an accessible university, a free education, has been in decline for years, including the idea of closing enclosures in order to implement the famous conscious. A merely partisan government, where people’s interests have become a background.

After what happened a year ago, through the months the Puerto Rican diaspora increased. A news presented by the new day allows us to see the reasons why Puerto Ricans fled to the United States after Hurricane Maria. Many are looking for the American dream, and after what happened, they fled in order to avoid the sequels that this situation would bring to the island. This being an extreme decisions point, finding stability, home, employment, leave the island without looking back.

Throughout her journey in Puerto Rico, she looks for ways to highlight the ineptitude of the government. Consequently, a panorama was released, which many people did not know, the precarious situations and poverty in which a large part of the population live. As a result, making known the other face of the currency, homeless homes, helpless families, without any help. The less fortunate sectors that throughout this crossing called life have been marginalized.

In Chapter 6, entitled "Desperate, Distraction, Despair and Disappearance" There is talk of how the impact of this storm has created a change in the thinking of each Puerto Rican. This since each person, regardless of the situation, by the chaos in which the government was subjected, such as the processes for household improvements for example, was so complicated, "inept, corrupt, slow" being some of the adjectives that so that soDescribe in reading. Distraction in many ways, such as the great march of the teachers on March 24 was a very important representation. Fighting for the closure of schools and wanting to privatize the system, implementing with them the charter schools. As Yarimar Bonilla said "there is a really sadness here, in a place that was known for his joy" . Creating this situation with a chain, including the increase in suicides in the country and the high cup of citizens abandoning the island, as mentioned above, the Puerto Rican diaspora.

After the past atmospheric phenomena in September 2017, a gap has opened bringing out the colonialism so strong that it has existed for years with which we run into day to day. As people like Massol Deyá, Dalma Cartagena and Mariana mutual support, they are people looking for good without looking at who, as they say there. From solar energy, agroecological crops and raise awareness, places to share their food and then distribute them. Where he presents an innovative point of view, for a better future.

This reading leads us to see beyond Maria, to open our eyes to enter account of how Puerto Rico had been living for decades for the same employer. How, from the point of view of the Canadian activist Naomi Klein, things that the government ignores, which does not give importance, can be clearly observed. Not so far, where the governor cries out for a third function of X singer, when there is a problem with the education of children and young people of the future, school closures. Where there is a poor health system, that you have to wait for a certain amount of months to serve you. Problems such as the vulnerability of the electrical system, and that Puerto Rico is not prepared for another situation of that magnitude. That is why the decline in both the government and in the necessary services, this since they do not give it the necessary attention. This reading is the reality in which you live before and after Mary.

REFERENCES

• Klein, Naomi. 2018.
• Klein, Naomi. ‘The battle for paradise.’ two. n.d.
• -. The battle for paradise. The Intercept, 2018.