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It has been a little over a year since Hurricane MarĂa fractured Puerto Rico’s infrastructure and its demographic and economic landscape. Currently, all the critical infrastructure—electricity, water, telecommunications, schools, and hospitals—is functional.
In the wake of the devastation resulting from hurricane MarĂa, the United States Federal Government mobilized numerous emergency relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Traditionally, Federal disaster response has been thought of as the “silver lining” that stems from a catastrophic event, given the millions of US Government dollars that are pumped into the local economy.
A continuaciĂłn, la ponencia presentada ante la ComisiĂłn Especial de Asuntos de EnergĂa del Senado de Puerto Rico por el Director de PolĂtica PĂşblica del Centro para una Nueva EconomĂa, (CNE) Sergio Marxuach, el 30 de agosto de 2018
On July 31, the government of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), and the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) announced a preliminary agreement aimed at restructuring a part of PREPA’s indebtedness with a group of unsecured bondholders.
Los desastres naturales mayormente destruyen, pero también generan nuevos vocabularios que incluyen un revoltijo de acrónimos, y toda clase de conceptos técnicos que los sobrevivientes tenemos que aprender y asimilar rápidamente, como el término “resiliencia”.
El huracán MarĂa devastĂł el sistema de energĂa de Puerto Rico. DespuĂ©s de la tormenta, la isla esencialmente ha tenido que reactivar su sistema energĂ©tico del equivalente de lo que en la industria se llama un “blackstart”, que es el tĂ©rmino tĂ©cnico que describe el proceso de reactivar el sistema de generaciĂłn energĂ©tica luego de un apagĂłn total.
Recientemente la Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) publicó un informe sobre la deuda de Puerto Rico. Los hallazgos principales del informe no deben sorprender a nadie.
