The key fight between Harris and Trump for the Puerto Rican vote in the diaspora: from Anuel AA to Miguel Cardona

The key fight between Harris and Trump for the Puerto Rican vote in the diaspora: from Anuel AA to Miguel Cardona

Camille Rivera remembers that her grandmother died longing to return to her homeland, her house and land in Puerto Rico. Her family had decided to move her to New York after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s so she could receive better treatment than she could get on the island, where the health system is in a crisis. “Until she lay down and took her last breath, she always said, ‘I have land and I have a home, and I want to go back,’” Rivera recounts. Like her grandmother, many of the six million Puerto Ricans in the diaspora in the United States dream of setting foot in their country again, but the reality on the island dissuades them: an electrical grid in pieces, closed schools, gentrified neighborhoods, mismanaged public funds...

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