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A New Database Tracks the Fate of Hurricane Maria's Indirect Victims

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Three organizations collected reports from Puerto Ricans who believed their loved ones died as a result of Hurricane Maria but whose death certificates didn’t indicate storm conditions as a cause of death.
For months, Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló refused to admit his government might have undercounted—and this is not the only spurious claim made since the disaster.
Hurricane Maria is officially the deadliest storm in modern U. S. history—yet it received just a fraction of the aid given to Houston.
The third in a string of cataclysmic hurricanes, Maria hit the Caribbean just two weeks after Hurricane Irma devastated the region.
For decades, Puerto Rico had been suffering the slow but certain violence of modern colonial capitalism.
A new report looks at how the government responded to a quick succession of hurricanes and wildfires last year.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is a small town with a long history of integrating Puerto Rican families, but this most recent influx is putting its resources to the test.

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