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Jhoni Jackson

Based in San Juan, Jhoni Jackson is a Latinx queer writing about culture and sociopolitical movements happening in Puerto Rico and elsewhere.

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Not Welcome

Deluded Anti-Mask Tourists Swarm COVID-Plagued Puerto Rico

“They have attitudes when they get here,” a local said of visitors. “One she said she was going to ‘die of retardation’ for taking her temperature.”

Jhoni Jackson

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NEW NORMAL?

Puerto Ricans Get ‘No Help from Government’ After Quakes

Families displaced by an unrelenting streak of earthquakes are living in parks.

Jhoni Jackson

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IN THE DARK

Puerto Rico Reels From Fresh Quake Nightmare

Some residents were expecting to ride out this new kind of storm on their own.

Jhoni Jackson

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