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‘The colony within the colony’: Puerto Rico fumes as FEMA deliberates over remote hospital

Published on: Monday 06 May 2019

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico — Sylvia Velez woke up at 4 a.m. one day in February to catch the ferry from this isolated island community to a hospital on the main island of Puerto Rico. But when she arrived ...


News source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/06/colony-within-colony-puerto-rico-fumes-fema-deliberates-over-remote-hospital/

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