
Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis
This summer’s water crisis in Puerto Rico is the latest example of the slow violence of the Puerto Rican debt crisis, exacerbated by patterns of remilitarization in the archipelago.
Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo is an assistant professor in the English Department at Seton Hall University, a co-editor of Post-Disaster Futures: Ruin, Repair, and Decolonial Imagination in Puerto Rico, and a principal collaborator of the Puerto Rico Syllabus.

This summer’s water crisis in Puerto Rico is the latest example of the slow violence of the Puerto Rican debt crisis, exacerbated by patterns of remilitarization in the archipelago.