Israel Meléndez Ayala is a historian and writer. He publishes a biweekly newsletter, Crítica. Roy Jiménez walks with three bags of ice for his refrigerator during a massive power blackout affected the ...

Puerto Rico’s electricity system has faced repeated crises since 2017’s Hurricane Maria, which destroyed much of the grid and triggered the longest blackout in modern U.S. history; outages remain ...

PONCE, Puerto Rico — More than two-thirds of Puerto Rico had no electricity on Wednesday in the wake of a powerful earthquake that damaged buildings across the southern part of the island and prompted ...

When Bad Bunny climbed a utility pole during the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, the performance brought attention to the fact that nearly a decade after a devastating hurricane, Puerto Rico's power grid ...

In Viejo San Juan, the power goes out so often that when it happens now, it is not uncommon to hear people in the neighborhood break into cheers. No one is celebrating the darkness or the prospect of ...

Roy Jiménez walks with three bags of ice for his refrigerator during a massive power blackout affected the entire island on April 16, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Credit - Jose Jimenez—Getty Images ...