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Puerto Rico is Not Free

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When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island was devastated. But the destruction of the its economy via U.S. policies began long before 2017. Ed Morales, lecturer Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the difficult past and uncertain future of Puerto Rico, which he writes about in his book, “Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico.”