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Doña María has lived in her Hacienda Grande home, also known as Villa Vaca in Loíza, for 62 years. It is the only home she has ever known. It is also where her grandfather lived. Five years ago, she ...
News Puerto Rico » Loiza » Social: Puerto Rico: Storm surge forces closure of streets in Loiza
San Juan, Jan 12 (Prensa Latina) The weather has disrupted the lives of Puerto Ricans today, due to storm surges that forced the municipality of Loíza to close numerous streets in the municipality of ...
News Puerto Rico » Loiza » Social: In Puerto Rico, even when it doesn’t rain, it pours
Milagros Pica Quiñones’ small concrete home is an untamed menagerie of bottles, paint buckets, bleach and laundry detergent jugs. The 96-year-old grandmother in the impoverished oceanfront town of ...
News Puerto Rico » Loiza » Social: Puerto Rican communities bear the brunt of the water crisis
As a child, visits to my grandmother’s home in the rural area between the municipalities of Humacao and Yabucoa, in eastern Puerto Rico, often began with the same question: “Is there running water?” ...