Puerto Rico's Ongoing Trauma

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 17, 2020

After a series of earthquakes have threatened the already fragile Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from 2017's Hurricane Maria, Yarimar Bonilla, political anthropology professor and professor in the department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019), talks about the constant trauma haunting the island's residents.

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