Laura Moscoso

Four months ago, the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI) published a story that revealed that at least 105 minors were vaccinated against COVID-19 by public and private providers in Puerto Rico. At the time, we had the Department of Health’s Vaccination Registry data through Feb. 23. The information revealed that 40 centers had administered at […]

Recently and increasingly, I’ve heard in the media, and from government officials phrases like, “data is data,” and, “the objective data is….” Those who say those phrases do so as if they were revealing true arguments, as if saying those words meant that they have an absolute and true notion about any problem. As if […]

Rafael Negrón Santos did not lose his home or his job after Hurricane María, but the storm was the end of his relationship with his partner. The struggle to survive in the days and weeks that followed, coupled with the despair caused by life without electricity, the frustration at the number of deaths that the […]

The most recent groundwater analysis shows that in little over a year, the chemicals detected in the aquifer under the mountain of coal ash at AES plant in Guayama — such as selenium, lithium and molybdenum — exceeded the maximum allowed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by four to 14 times. The consumption of […]

The 10 empty liquor bottles are the color of seaweed and mud. Once they were litter on the streets of the East Garfield Park neighborhood in Chicago. But now, clean and sparkling, the bottles are on display some 2,000 miles away at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, part of a work by artist […]

The quintessential image that portrays the history of the Cantera community in San Juan dates back to 1989, when residents met in a house garage to assign each other tasks and assume their own reconstruction in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo. It sparked a community organization process, which in turn led to the establishment of […]

Last Tuesday, 13 men and three women met in a room at the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR, for its initials in Spanish.)  They were waiting for the Auction Board’s orientation regarding its Request for Proposals for the relocation of 3,200 Puerto Rico prisoners to U.S. private jails. An experiment that was done before […]

The most recent version of Puerto Rico’s fiscal plan for its central government would chart the future of the country, giving some degree of certainty to citizens, businesses and investors to bet on the island’s dismal economy. Yet it is built on economic projections totally incompatible with the historical experience of places that have been […]

Armando Vega Martínez anxiously awaits for the day he can have a home again. The house in which he lived, among the mountains of the Guaraguao neighborhood in Ponce, was completely destroyed when an adjacent structure fell on it after succumbing to the powerful winds of hurricane María just over four months ago. To find […]

Outside the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York, where a “listening session” of Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Control Board was held Thursday, federal police prevented a photographer with the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) from doing his job and was prohibited from entering the building. Inside, the Board held a session called “The Future […]

It happens every time Angélica Ramos leaves her home and walks towards Highway 185 in the Carruzos neighborhood: the images of junk, furniture, mattresses, pieces of wood and other debris continuing to pile up on the side of the road. Not far from there, in the area of Los Chalaos —right next to the bus […]

Alberto Ramos Rivera wants his house back, but his health prevents him from removing the pieces of wood, zinc, and other accumulating debris that have kept his home unlivable for more than two months. María Sánchez was offered an apartment in a public housing complex, but restrictions on her son’s probation don’t allow her to […]

Ana L. Nieto Mercado died on Friday, September 29, because she did not receive adequate dialysis treatments. Her son, Héctor L. Vargas Nieto, said her mother was able to attend two appointments immediately after Hurricane María and get medical care, although incompletely: she needed three rounds of three-hour sessions but managed only two rounds of […]

Imagine this: in the late nighttime hours, the desperate cries of your child cause you to search for a therapy machine with only a flashlight. In the darkness, a car becomes your only power source to turn on the equipment that soothes your child’s shortness of breath. After being startled again, you return to your […]

Juan Noguera is on a list of more than 200 names along with investment firms, bond insurers (monolines), banks and contractors interested in the Puerto Rico’s government bankruptcy case. He is a real estate appraiser about to retire. His savings are committed to the Sales Tax Financing Corp. (COFINA) bonds but he does not belong […]