“I STRUGGLE WHERE YOU VACATION,” says headline on press release from the Huffington Post yesterday:
In one of the first collaborations between The Huffington Post and RYOT, comes this beautifully produced 360 mini-documentary titled, “I Struggle Where You Vacation” taking viewers inside the debt crisis* in Puerto Rico and how it is affecting ordinary citizens.
“We have seen the effects on the youth, we have seen the effects on the education. The people of Puerto Rico have shared the burden of this debt, mostly the working class. It’s directly related to our colonial status,” said Manuel Natal, Representative of the governing Popular Democratic Party. The mini-documentary shows areas such as the Caño Martín Peña River where lack of infrastructure is leading to health problems for more than 25,000 residents and the Ramón Vila Mayo School in Rio Piedras where the number of students has gone from 700 to approximately 370 in just five years and where flooding frequently prevents students from using the school classrooms.
Check out the full video here to see how ordinary citizens are taking matters into their own hands as the deb crisis deepens and legislators in Washington continue not to act.
That’s nice; now do a video on Cuba titled “I Struggle Where You Vacation.” Incidentally note the lie in the above statement: Washington is acting; but Puerto Rico’s politicians are refusing the terms, lest they be limited from unfettered spending of even more of their citizens’ money in the future.