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The Island: The Making and Unmaking of Modern Puerto Rico
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NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez offers a forceful, necessary exposé on the precarious realities and politics of modern Puerto Rico, detailing the decade of financial exploitation, federal negligence, and American ambivalence that pushed the most populous US territory to the brink and examining what must be done to insure the island’s survival.
For decades Puerto Rico has been on its own. Criminally underfunded and largely forgotten by the US government, the island ha...