Puerto Rico Is a "Playground for the Privileged": Investors Move In as Homes Foreclose & Schools Clo

[G_j]

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/6/6/puerto_rico_is_a_playground_for


Puerto Rico Is a “Playground for the Privileged”: Investors Move In as Homes Foreclose & Schools Close
June 06, 2018

While healthcare, the public school system and infrastructure in Puerto Rico are flailing nine months after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, wealthy investors have descended on the island to turn a profit. We speak with Naomi Klein, author, journalist and a senior correspondent for The Intercept. Her new book is titled “The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists.” We also speak with Katia Avilés-Vázquez, a Puerto Rican environmental activist and member of Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica, and Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE and co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Expected this...It's all in the Shock Doctrine...

All the vultures are diving in for the kill.

[2naSalit]

11. Yup.

First thing that came to mind the day I heard about the disaster.

[treestar]

16. +1

Very predictable.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Right on Schedule.

Trump's Cronies were there the day after the Storm .

[hatrack]

3. And watch them whine and squeal for loans and fed money after the next hurricane

Bank on it.

[OregonBlue]

4. I've said this from day one. This administration had no intention of making PR whole. They wanted it

to crash and burn so they could swoop in and pick up wildly valuable real estate for nothing. The president is a real estate shark for christ's sake. What did everyone think he would do?

[G_j]

8. exactly right

disaster capitalism at its finest

[2naSalit]

10. Minimal investigation

would probably show that beevis and butthead have been circling over the island waiting for the "kill".

[appalachiablue]

5. 'Never let a good disaster go to waste'..

[Thomas Hurt]

6. carpetbaggers...

[Mc Mike]

7. SOP, thanks G_j and Prof Klein. And DemNow.

[bornfree17]

9. Katrina

deja vu

[Duppers]

17. Exactly!

[malaise]

12. Naomi Klein warned us in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
Same criminality happened after Katrina and after that horrific tsunami in the Indian Ocean -they stole the entire coastline from the locals.

[suffragette]

13. K&R

[OldHippieChick]

14. This is just criminal. Their resorts will be built on the bodies of the

nearly 5000 dead. How do they live w/ themselves?

[ananda]

15. This happened in NOLA after Katrina also.

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