0 も 0 g linesfor gasoline, 石た e this one in Sa れ 1u0 れ 0 れ Sept. 30 , were 0 common sight after the storm; president Trump tosses 0 ro れ 0 工を aper towels intO decade, people have been leaving in historic num- Puert0 Rico began September ⅲ its usual place, bers; more PuertO Ricans Ⅱ 0 、 live on the mainland on the dim edge ofAmericans' awareness. Just after Maria made landfall, a poll found that nearly halfof than on the island, and Maria will accelerate the ex- odus. The Climate lmpact Lab estimates that the Americans did not know Puerto Ricans were U. S. citi- storm could knock back per capita economic out- zens. That likely wouldn't be true a month later, but put by 21 % over the next 15 years. the confusion is understandable, given the island's lt's possible the storm will underscore the mes- muddy history with the mainland. sage many Puert0 Ricans have already absorbed: that Claimed for Spain by Christopher COIumbus a population 0f brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking on his second trip tO the New World, Puert0 RiC0 Americans counts forless. Yet senior Puerto Rican Of- ("Rich Port ” ) was taken along with Cuba and other is- ficials reckon that, along with sea cows, the storm can lands by the U. S. in the 1898 Spanish-American War. also produce a fresh start. Trump himself provided lt has remained part ofthe U. S. ever since, in no small the first evidence of the transformation during his part by ch0ice. Repeatedly if narrowly, voters have trip. Speaking ofthe territory's $ 73 billion debt, the opted tO maintain the status quo as a U. S. territory, President said, "We're going tO have tO wipe that out. ” though with 10 times as many people as the 0ther A White House offcial later disavowed the promise, four U. S. territories combined. Puerto Ricans are in- and a recovery package is only just taking sh 叩 e ⅲ deed citizens, but they have no voting representa- Congress. But it was wind at the back ofthose urging tive in Congress and cannot VOte for President. The both sides, supplicant island and historical master, commonwealth arrangement leaves PuertO RiCO in tO escape a shared history. the gray zone that is familiar in bOth Latin America and the Caribbean, where economic, political and in- IF PUERTO RICO 、 A STATE, it would rank in termittent military domination by the U. S. has been area near Connecticut, the nation's richest. But in a fact oflife ever since the Monroe Doctrine. Only in terms ofincome, it would displace Mississippi as the PuertO RiCO, it's more direct. poorest ofthe poor. The poverty rate is about 45 %. When the U. S. Navy needed a bombing range, it "lfwe're going tO rebuild and reconstruct, it has set one up on Vieques, an islet Off the main island's t0 be for the right reasons; ” says Cruz, the San Juan eastern shore. ln 1976 , Congress gave PuertO Rico mayor. "We have tO reshape our society. As awful as a financial boon by allowing companies tO operate this has been, it's an opportunity." ln her baseball there tax-free. Twenty years later, Congress began to cap and glasses, Cruz has been at the vortex 0f the phase out the law. The island's government contin- political storm that followed the meteorological one. ued to spend, however, bridging the growing chasm She called out FEMA and parried the fusillade from by issuing bonds it could not pay off. Legally unable Trump. Yet even she hesitated to publicly broach tO de clare bankruptcy, it surrendered control of its the issue Of whether the emergency could restore finances, again by an act of Congress, to a federally the island's autonomy. 'We are all shying away from appointed oversight board. "This board is strangely that, because we don't want the discourse to change, reminiscent Of the Executive Council, which ruled she tells TIME. "We don't want it to be about politics, the island between 1900 and 1917 , " writes Jorge we want it tO be about 1 ⅳ es. ” Duany Of Florida lnternational University. PuertO "Of course; ” she adds, 'politics affect lives. ” Ricans call it the "junta. ” NOTE: DAMAGE IS A HIGH ・ RANGE ESTIMATE. IRMA ESTIMATE INCLUDES DAMAGE TO GEORGIA, PUERTO RICO AND THE U. S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. SOURCES: MERCATUS CENTER; BLS: MOODY'S ANALYTICS; CENSUS A population already i ng DEBT Per capita S20 , 366 PU ERTO R ℃ 0 $2 , 144 U. S. UNEMPLOYMENT August 2017 10 上 PUERTO R ℃ 0 4 IJ. S. WAGES Average weekly S509 PUERTO R ℃ 0 $1 , 121 U. S.

A BIG STORM CAN RAKE UPA L 〇工 Ten days after Hurricane Maria roared across PuertO Rico, joggers circling the capital's Condad0 lagoon were delighted by the sight 0f manatees, the gentle herbivores that sailors once mistook for mermaids. lt's not a routine sight in San Juan, and it was a rare uplifting one in a catalog 0f all the storm had laid bare: nearly every branch 0f every tree, with the interiors 0f homes opened like dollhouses—and, not least, the lopsided dynamic between Washington and the U. S. territory that might be best understood as America's Last C010ny. Maria could be the most destructive Atlantic storm on record. Research by the Climate lmpact Lab suggests that no larger area has been hit SO compre- hensively anywhere in the world in the past 60 years. Yet the storm somehow managed tO reinforce one thing: the historically paternalistic relationship be- tween mainland and island. The inequity became more pronounced with the passing 0f each muggy day in the storm's aftermath. The federal govern- ment's response was markedly slower and less at- tentive tO Puerto RiCO after Maria than tO Texas after Harvey and Florida after lrma. And when the devas- tation finally came home tO the White House, almost a week after Maria's Sept. 20 landfall, what President Trump most conspicuously dOled out tO the victims was tart advice followed by angry remonstration. TO the victims of Harvey, Trump contributed $ 1 million from his personal fortune. But faced with far worse damage in PuertO RiCO, he assumed the role ofput-upon overseer. Trump framed the disaster on Sept. 25 by tweeting about the island's financial debts. On Oct. 3 , he opened what was intended as a healing visit by observing, "You've thrown our budget a little out 0f whack. ” ln between, he lambasted San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulfn Cruz—"such poor leadership. they want everything to be done for them"—after she relayed PuertO Ricans complaints that aid was not reaching them. "Everything, I lost everything; ” said Diego Rivera, in the poor San Juan neighborhood directly below the Spanish battlements that are a symbol 0fPuert0 Rico. lt was Oct. 1 , 11 days after the storm ripped Off his roof. "And we're still waiting. They haven't done nothing yet. ” What ends up being done, and how, is an espe- cially momentous question for puertO RiCO because ofhow broken the island was even before the storm. Bankrupt but unable tO escape its debts, its position at landfall was as fragile as the electrical grid that a year ago collapsed entirely on its own. For nearly a 30 TIME October 16 , 2017

that had been a lifeline in disasters for decades would move the Maria response Offthe dime. RadiO stations broadcast a summons tO the mayors and 55 showed up the next day. When truckers heard the call, goods finally started leaving the port. Between Sept. 29 and Sept. 30 , Rosse116 says, the number oftrucks doubled from 400 to 800. lt was t00 late, however, tO salvage the political disaster. Bythen, acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke had called the stalled operation "really, a good news story. ' Watching 0 れ CNN, Mayor Cruz struggled tO contain her reaction. (l)amn it, this is not a good news story; she said. "This this is a people are dying' story ・ The reliefoperation that Cruz mounted from the arena named for R0bert0 Clemente (the baseball legend who died delivering earthquake relief) doubled as an insurgency. "I just dO not understand why FEMA can't seem to find their way out ofa paper bag," she said on Sept. 29 amid pallets 0f canned goods and diapers contributed by businesses. The next day, FEMA sent over several pallets as well, and it was all being packed into boxes as Cruz faced a stream ofcamera crews. Trump had attacked her on Twitter for criticizing the flailing effort. "politically motivated ingrates; ” he wrote. Cruz was fine with the attention, but she declined tO take the bait. "Seriously, I have more important things t0 d0 , ” she t01d Senator Elizabeth Warren, when the Massachusetts Democrat called tO ask what Congress should d0 for Puert0 Rico. Cruz brought up theJones Act, a 1920 statute unknown tO most Amer- icans but a household term in PuertO RiCO. Cruz says it raises prices on the island by 30 % because it bars foreign vessels from transporting U. S. cargo between U. S. ports. Trump suspended it to help the aftermath Of lrma and Harvey, but initially hesitated tO give PuertO Rico the s ame b reak, explaining that "the re are a 10t 0f people who work ⅲ the shipping indus- try that don't want the Jones Act lifted. " On Capit01 Hill, the President's inelegance may actually help PuertO RiCO. The Hisp anic VOte matters tO the House Republicans facing re-election in com- petitive districts, and as the recovery package takes shape, political benefit may flow from taking the side ofthe shattered island. ln any event, only a massive infusion of federal funds will produce the kind of reconstruction that, as Rosse116 put it, "shows a way forward, tO make ofthis catastrophe in the long term a story of rebuilding, rethinking and putting puerto RiCO in the vanguard. ” lt may not even be wishful thinking. If both mainland and island agree that it's possible, a new future could be sketched on a slate, and a territory, thatMariawiped clean. —With reporting 妙 MASSIMO CALABRESI, ELIZABETH DIAS, PHILIP ELLIOTT 0 れ d ZEKE J. MILLER/WASHINGTON; 0 れ d TARA JOHN/ ロ LONDON 34 TIME Oct0ber 16 , 2017

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0 0 crowd as he hands 0 砒 supplies 砒 Ca ん 0 ChapeI, ⅲ Gu れ 0 , 0 Oct. 3 ゞⅲ Morovis, people bathe ⅲ 0 river 0 れ Oct. 1 from lrma, but as Trump observed, miles of open sea slowed everything. "There is a thing called the Atlantic Ocean," Trump said on Sept. 26 , the day after the magnitude 0f the disaster finally sank in at the White House. The tide was turned by TV images, . receives a plus reports from two senior offcials wh0 had just devastati ng h it arrived on the island. Trump had spent the weekend in Bedminster, N. J. , immersed in details ofthe latest travel ban and the feud he had picked with the NFL. THERE'S NO ONE WAY tO provide aid after a disaster. When Maria hit, David Darg was ⅲ Mexico City, helping t0 feed victims ofthe earthquake. Five days later, the vice president Of Operation Blessing, a faith-based aid group, landed ⅲ SanJuan with an aid shipment in the form ofchecked baggage containing four crates Of hand-size SOlar lights, ingenious creations that fold flat for charging during the day and pop open t0 provide eight hours oflight. He came alone. been a season ofdisasters, and everyone S stretched a little thin," he says. The offcial command center in Puerto RiCO was a sleek air-conditioned convention center that had every 叩 pearance of a well-run machine, from laminated IDs t0 digital signboards. At daily news conferences, Rosse116, flanked by FEMA offcials and a three-star general, read out the metrics—another million meals at the port, another 5 , 000 troops. The only problem was that almost none Of it seemed tO be reaching the countryside. Or even neighborhoods down the street. The bottleneck was truckers. With hundreds of cell towers down, Rosse116 tells TIME, "We couldn't communicate tO let them know we needed them. ' They 'd had the same problem reaching the territory's 78 mayors, whO were tO carry the aid from 11 distri- bution points tO their constituents. Trying tO contact them by cell, they'd reached just six. Then someone had a thought: radio. The medium 33 Then came Maria. ln one day, the storm utterly transformed the is- land physically. A landscape that had been a lush green became the dun color oftrees stripped ofevery leaf, even pine needles. PuertO Rico's hillsides resem- bled Vietnam's after titanic battles, ghostly moon- scapes devoid Oflife. ln greater SanJuan, where more than halfofthe population lives, once familiar vistas were SO transformed that drivers lost their bearings, distracted by buildings that had been hidden by foli- age or billboards that were no longer there. Outside the city, where the storm hit hardest, only the freeway cloverleafs showed growth, their shoulders crowded with parked cars so the drivers could grab a signal from the rare operating cell tower. Along with the creaking electrical grid, Maria took down the water supply. ln Rf0 Grande a week after the storm, a woman was shampooing her hair above rapids where a bald man washed his socks. At 34 deaths, even the updated offcial casualty toll is astonishingly low, though subject to revision. lt testifies to the efforts ofisland offcials who placed their faith in minute-by-minute forecasts, rather than the prayers that some local preachers had urged tO maintain the island's extraordinary record Ofnear misses. Maria stayed the course. Offcially 2 m. p. h. shy of Category 5 at landfall on the southeastern shore, it raked the entire island. There was no intact corner from which tO stage a recovery effort. "We were completely disconnected," says Gov- ernor Ricardo Rosse116, who spent the first days answering fresh emergencies. S01 れ e 2 , 000 people were rescued from flash floods, and then a damaged dam required a masslve evacuation. The feds had their own excuses for a late start. San Juan's port and airport were stricken, and the main 箋 aviation radar—damaged atop a wooded summit— took three days to reach. FEMA staff were already on the island dealing with the far lighter damage PUERTO R ℃ 0 ( M A R ー A ) $95B DAMAGE S27 , 900 PER CAPITA FLORIDA い R M A ) S83 B DAMAGE $4 , 000 PER CAPITA TEXAS ( H A R V E Y ) S108 B DAMAGE $3 , 900 PER CAPITA