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	Podcast:		The Brian Lehrer Show
	Episode:		The Ongoing Crisis in Puerto Rico
	Category:		News & Politics
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-20 10:00:22
	Description:		Melissa Mark-Viverito, senior advisor to Latino Victory Fund and Power 4 Puerto Rico and former City Council Speaker, talks about the latest on Puerto Rico's recovery from Hurricane Maria, this week's island-wide power outage and the ongoing fiscal crisis on the island. "The idea of FEMA cutting off the benefits, the blackout that happened... we can’t get a break. We need an appropriate response from Congress, from this administration, #PuertoRico is still in a crisis," says @MMViverito. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 20, 2018 "There has to be debt relief [in #PuertoRico], there cannot the expectation that any type of the money we’re receiving for the rebuilding of the island is going to go to pay those debtors or those vulture funds," says @MMViverito. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 20, 2018 @BrianLehrer It seems like the legacy of America abandoning it’s citizens of color is alive and well. Puerto Rico is a victim of American apathy toward brown people. — Abu Zibda (@AbuZibda) April 20, 2018
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