These images gesture toward the profound degradation of Puerto Rican liberties
while also celebrating the island with a juicy portrait of its nature:
A soulful, colorful, nourishing Mecca of culture and literally... mangoes!
Fallen fruit grows unrecognizable, though, and the spirit of Boricua (as it is known by its own)
is endangered by our ongoing, U.S., daddy-slaughter of its dignity.
This criminally relentless, slow motion, micro-genoicide of our cousin to the South is partially catalogued beneath the gallery.
How The US Stole Puerto Rico by award-winning NYT journalist, Johnny Harris The most accurate portrayal of the decades-long, U.S. psychological warfare on Puerto Ricans called The Carpetas, which concluded in the only time in US history when the U.S. bombed its own citizens.
Puerto Rico’s Deadly Drug Addiction by Unreported World A 2026 story about mounting concerns that President Trump’s war on drugs in the Caribbean could be having unintended consequences.
Searching for Answers by Michigan Online Exposing the abusive non-response of America to its own citizens following Hurricane Maria
We Went to Puerto Rico: The Inequality We Saw Will Shock You by More Perfect Union A detailed investigation of how unjust tax policy drives mass suffering and the staggering 43% Puerto Rican unemployment rate