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Puerto Rico’s power crisis

Today, Explained

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Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria

Elise Hernandez is a reporter for the Washington Post. In 2017 she was in Puerto Rico covering what happened there after Hurricane Maria. On that trip she met a woman Maria Ortiz Biroet. She lives in the mountainous community of Oudualo and Maria had had a tough time because the electricity was down water service wasn't a reality in her community. It's today explained I'm Noelle King.

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