Recent Episodes
The Tax Paradise: Puerto Rican Voices
In the last decade, Puerto Rico has become a major destination for Americans seeking to evade federal taxes. Tax incentives provided by the Puerto Rican government are spurring gentrification and housing insecurity. In communities like Puerta de Tierra, community leaders are challenging new colonizers, and the local politicians who have betrayed them.This documentary episode focuses on the effects of Act 20, 22, and 60 in Puerto Rico.
Directed by Ana María García
Burning Ashes: Puerto Rican Voices
Puerto Rico’s energy crisis is not only making electricity more unstable, and unaffordable, but it’s having disastrous consequences to human health and the ecosystem. AES is a private company that generates power through a coal-burning plant in the Southeast of the island. In “Burning Ashes”, Puerto Rican Voices continues the coverage of Puerto Rico’s energy crisis by looking at the environmental effects, and health problems of the residents of Guayama, which are caused by the pollution of the coal-burning plant. Recently, public power plants in Puerto Rico have been privatized, and are expected to continue the fossil-fuel burning model.
Directed by Kique Cubero García
After the Boats Left: Puerto Rican Voices
Elba Dávila (a community leader in Fajardo) organizes the community of Maternillo to demand better public services for an aging community facing displacement after the Ferry Service to Vieques and Culebra was moved to the town of Ceiba. The community has collapsed without the economic activity provided by the Ferry transit and local fishermen fight to maintain their livelihoods.
Directed by Sonia Fritz
About This Show
Puerto Rican Voices is an investigative TV documentary series about colonialism in Puerto Rico. In the aftermath of hurricane María, the island has struggled to get back on its feet, and instead of getting more prepared in the wake of climate change, Puerto Rico finds itself in an even more fragile state. It is within this environment that the government puts forward a privatization agenda, providing unprecedented tax breaks to investors. This five-part series explores the energy crisis, pollution, displacement, and economic precarity, resulting from a decade-long recession, and the aftershocks of hurricane María. Looking at the intersections of resilience, and resistance, Puerto Rican Voices provides a map to the ongoing issues of Puerto Rico.
Regular Air Times
Monday – Thursday 1:30pm