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Dec 14, 201700:06:07Society & Culture

Life in rural Puerto Rico has always included power outages, but the long blackout after Hurricane Maria is deliberate and cruel, making Hanukkah, and solidarity campaign to send solar lanterns to my home barrio especial...

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