U.S. and Puerto Rico Relations Following Hurricane Prevented ‘Temporary Institutional Change,’ Says Prof

Prof. Rosa Ficek ’03, anthropology, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, connected Puerto Rico’s situation following Hurricane Maria to an underlying “neo-liberal” structure that links Puerto Rico to the United States in a lecture on Monday.

Ficek began her lecture by asking the audience a simple question: “Everything was destroyed. … [so we wondered,] what was taking so long?”

This article originally appeared in the Cornell Daily Sun.

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