Residents, already fed up with repeated outages and rate hikes, were captivated last week by the dramatic escalation of a standoff between lawmakers and the chief executive of the island’s new energy company.
Amid a confusing tangle of overlapping authorities, shady contracts, and a push for privatization, nobody knows what the end of the island’s electricity and humanitarian crises will look like, or when it will come.
Inside Puerto Rico’s power struggle