Puerto Rico is paradise. Beaches, lush mountains, rich culture. But beneath the beauty—something is very wrong. In 2006, nearly 4 million people lived here. By 2100? It’ll be one million.
Puerto Rico—a U.S. territory, but not a state—is the poorest, most unequal part of the United States. And it’s in free fall.
Since 2006 15% of Puerto Ricans have left the island.
Puerto Rico’s birth rate is the 7th lowest in the world, it’s lower than Japan’s.
Nearly half the population lives below the poverty line and despite paying more for electricity than anywhere else in the USA, rolling blackouts frequently plunge Puerto Rico into darkness for weeks if not months.
A Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans is arriving—fast.
And this… is the story of how we got here.
