Editor's Note

According to the president, his administration responded in a timely fashion and saved the day. After the journal went to press, another study, this one from George Washington University's Milken Institute of Public Health, agreed with a much higher number of deaths than the amount reported by Puerto Rico's government, and it estimated the total figure to be closer to 3,000 casualties. A handful of undergraduate students and I were asked to create education and social programs for the residents of the Caño, who would soon be asked to exchange their precarious homes, whether they wanted this option or not, for more modern accommodations known as caseríos (public housing). The people in the Caño were like me, and yet I, who was raised by a single parent with little means, was there to help them. [...]Puerto Rico is where the journey started for many of my close friends from my neighborhood, whose parents made their way from a warm climate and familiar culture to a cold and inhospitable mainland environment to start a new life.