BONUS: A Crushing Blow to Puerto Rico: A New Debt Restructuring Plan
Joshua Smyser-DeLeon Joshua Smyser-DeLeon

BONUS: A Crushing Blow to Puerto Rico: A New Debt Restructuring Plan

For this bonus episode, we’re sharing a Facebook Live panel discussion from our friends at Power 4 Puerto Rico. The topic of discussion is Puerto Rico’s recently approved debt restructuring plan that the US colonial board - La Junta - imposed on Puerto Rico. We talked about the new debt restructuring plan and its faults in our last episode and took a deeper dive on our Instagram page - @paseopodcast - as to why this new plan could lead to devastating effects down the road for la Isla. But what we’re sharing today will provide a more in-depth unpacking of the details of the plan. 

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Episode 69: LUMA Energy & Blackouts in Puerto Rico
Joshua Smyser-DeLeon Joshua Smyser-DeLeon

Episode 69: LUMA Energy & Blackouts in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico residents are PISSED over consistent power outages happening in Puerto Rico since LUMA Energy - a private Canadian-American company - took over la Isla's electricity on June 1, 2021. We welcome Nicole Acevedo, NBC News and NBC Latino reporter, and Carlos Berríos Polanco, a freelance independent journalist focused on covering extremism, political corruption and civil unrest in Puerto Rico, to the show to discuss what the heck is going on.

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