Protests Erupt in Puerto Rico to Fight a Worsening Energy Crisis

[PSOL]

https://www.leftvoice.org/protests-erupt-in-puerto-rico-to-fight-a-worsening-energy-crisis/

This weekend, more than 4,000 Puerto Ricans marched down the main highway in San Juan, blocking traffic to protest ongoing power outages. The lack of electricity in Puerto Rico’s capital city is threatening residents’ health; they are overheating in their homes and are forced to throw out food and even insulin that has gone bad due to lack of consistent refrigeration.

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Just like the private energy grid that left millions of Texans without power in the middle of freezing temperatures last year, the increasing privatization of essential services in Puerto Rico is devastating the island and its inhabitants.

Privatization is an evil in and of itself.

[Damocles]

Puerto Rico should be a state, and not a de facto colony.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Puerto Rico should be a state, and not a de facto colony.

Maybe this will give Democrats the opportunity to want to pursue statehood again. But it's still for naught since Manchin and Sinema care more about the filibuster than about Americans who have been treated like less than that for far too long.