” Puerto Rico is an island that suffers from its position in the middle of the Caribbean and its physical separation from the U.S. Its roads were in disrepair and its electrical grid was antiquated PRIOR to the hurricane. The island has also suffered for Years from ineffective local government and rising local Territorial Debt.
The Navy used to operate a large Navy base there, Naval Station Roosevelt Roads. I spent six months on the island in 1993, but when the island’s population protested the presence of the training range at nearby Vieques Island, the Navy shuttered the base, taking $300 million a year out of the Puerto Rican economy.
If they still had that Navy base they’d be in better shape, but local politicos wanted it gone.”
They’ve tried for years to become Independent....destroying their Island as they went. Far too much corruption at every level and why it’s a shambles there long before the storms.