Catatonia Huascar Robles

The funeral of a military man. A young man escapes homophobia. We all recall memories associated with our contentious relationship with our political identity. What is your anecdote of the concept of Puerto Rico Statehood?

4,645 people died after Hurricane María ---- 4 6 4 5 ----- The number? A report by The New England Journal o Medicine. The conclusion? Lack of transparency. This episode explores the poetry behind the discourse given to a nation in a state of shock.
 

I went to Puerto Rico to bury my grandmother. There I found the national strike. This episode is about pausing, thinking and the silences we face during trauma. It also about images and surveillance, and how social and traditional media might evolve to become Puerto Rico's next "carpeteo" or surveillance program.

Bubu Negrón y Luis Agosto Leduc visited NY's NADA Art fair to raise funds for the Puerta de Tierra Brigade, an arts initiative to lift San Juan's Puerta de Tierra neighborhood into visibility. This is a bilingual episode.