Marisol LeBrón is an associate professor of critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author or editor books of several books, including Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico and is cocreator and project leader for the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital resource for understanding the Puerto Rican debt crisis.

August 18, 2026

• Marisol LeBrón
• Sarah Molinari
• Isabel Guzzardo

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.