afreytes 🇵🇷 on Nostr: More than half a century ago, USia wanted Puerto Rico to serve as a sample of how an ...

More than half a century ago, USia wanted Puerto Rico to serve as a sample of how an Hispanic country being owned by USia was a good thing. Back then our water and electricity networks where some of the best in the planet. All publicly owned. Maintained by boricuas.

But when that example wasn't needed. Reagan, and later on privatization efforts, undermined all of that infrastructure.

Now we just have VCs trying to gobble what is left of the infrastructure, to raise prices on services.