While the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States approaches 100,000, to President Donald Trump only one number matters: the 270 votes that are required to win the Electoral College in November and with it, guarantee his re-election. The deaths do not matter to Trump and he asserts...
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Mientras la cifra de muertos por coronavirus en Estados Unidos se acerca a los 100 mil, al presidente Donald Trump sólo le importa un número: los 270 votos que requiere para ganar el Colegio Electoral en noviembre y con eso garantizar su reelección. A Trump no le importan los...
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Maribel Hastings and David Torres If one thing was obvious by the end of last week, it’s that COVID-19 does not discriminate, although the officials charged with confronting the pandemic do. It is an almost natural practice among those who have the power and, because of this fact, think...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the effect it has had on President Donald Trump, intensifying his political opportunism and ridiculous, always out-of-place comments, make me ask myself: what will come next? If it’s true that the pandemic that has cost thousands of lives changed life as we know it, from...
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Apr 27, 2020
La pandemia del Covid-19 y el efecto que ha tenido en el presidente Donald Trump, intensificando su oportunismo político y sus estrafalarios comentarios siempre fuera de lugar, me llevan a preguntarme qué es lo que sigue. Si bien la pandemia que ha cobrado miles de vidas nos cambió la...
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Maribel Hastings and David Torres Disasters have the bad habit of exposing, to all, the multiple problems that many of us already knew existed, but others, out of economic and political convenience, prefer to keep sweeping under the rug. This is typical not only in societies that have everything,...
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Apr 7, 2020
San Juan.- COVID-19 just “put the cherry on top” in Puerto Rico. Since September 2017, it’s been nonstop. Two hurricanes, “Irma” and “María,” hit us just days apart. “María” caused death and destruction. To this day, there are people whose homes do not have roofs, entire industries that have not...
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Apr 6, 2020
San Juan.- COVID-19 vino a colocarle la cereza al pastel en Puerto Rico. Digamos que desde septiembre de 2017 la isla no saca los pies del plato. Nos azotaron dos huracanes, “Irma” y “María”, con apenas días de diferencia. “María” provocó muerte y una devastación en diversos renglones que...
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Although as a Puerto Rican I have already experienced the uncertainty inherent in having Donald J. Trump as president in the midst of a natural disaster like what was Hurricane Maria in 2017, my worst fears have been turned into reality with the coronavirus crisis. That is, I always...
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Aunque ya como puertorriqueña había experimentado la incertidumbre de tener a Donald J. Trump como presidente en medio de un desastre natural como lo fue el huracán “María” en 2017, mis mayores temores se han hecho realidad con la crisis del coronavirus. Es decir, siempre me preguntaba qué sería...
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