Against the Current, No. 221, November/December 2022
César J. Ayala
Fiona’s devastation, compounded by colonialism.
PUERTO RICO WAS hit by two hurricanes in the last five years, both in the month of September.
• The first blow was María in 2017, a category 5 hurricane which devastated the island’s electrical grid and left some sectors of the population without electricity for up to a year.
• In September 2022 Hurricane Fiona struck. This time it was a category 1 hurricane, with winds not as strong as María’s but with more rain, producing floods, mudslides and destruction of bridges.