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The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

Volunteers distribute food to neighbors who remain outdoors using camping tents and portable lights for fear of possible aftershocks after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck in Guanica, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. The quake was followed by a series of strong aftershocks, part of a 10-day series of temblors spawned by the grinding of tectonic plates along three faults beneath southern Puerto Rico.

Puerto Ricans left homeless after biggest quake in century

Associated Press January 8, 2020

GUANICA, Puerto Rico (AP) — Cars, cots and plastic chairs became temporary beds for hundreds of families who lost their homes in southwest Puerto Rico as a flurry of earthquakes struck the island, one...

Demonstrators stand in front of riot control units during clashes in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, July 22, 2019. Protesters are demanding Gov. Ricardo Rossello step down following the leak of an offensive, obscenity-laden online chat between him and his advisers that triggered the crisis.

Political crisis deepens in Puerto Rico

Danica Coto, Associated Press July 23, 2019

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico judge issued search warrants for the cellphones of government officials involved in a crude online chat whose leak has set off a political crisis that threatens...

Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny has been a staple of Latin music for years

Bad Bunny

Allegra Acosta February 4, 2019

Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio: The mysterious figure that goes by the alias of Bad Bunny. Growing up in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, his rise to stardom has expanded to the areas that he parties in: from a...

Debris scatters a destroyed community in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. (Gerald Herbert, AP)

U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico’s unseen economical damages

Evan Sully November 13, 2017

A recent stretch of hurricanes in August and September left destruction in physical property as well as the U.S. economy. What resulted in extensive damage on capital and swallowed up jobs impacted different...

Telephone poles block many of the roads in Puerto Rico, such as this one in Dorado.
(Photo courtesy of Hugo Infante)

Disaster in paradise

Amber Colón, Editor-in-Chief October 2, 2017

When Hurricane Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico on Sept. 19, the entire island’s was devastated. Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, said that it would likely be 15 years before Puerto Rico would...

 On Thursday, Sept. 21, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook will provide the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency to congressional investigators. 
(Manu Fernandez/AP)

Nation & World Briefs: Sept. 25, 2017

The Associated Press September 25, 2017

International headlines to know this week. [accordions] [accordion title="Obama campus assault guidance scrapped under Trump" load="show"] The Trump administration on Friday scrapped Obama-era...

(Ally Zacek, The DePaulia)

2,052 miles to San Juan, Chicago’s historical proximity to Puerto Rico requires us to start paying attention

Amber Colón, Editor-in-Chief September 11, 2017

When Hurricane Irma blazed through several Caribbean islands before finally hitting Florida this weekend, one of the many impoverished places that it grazed was Puerto Rico. As Chicago has one of the largest...

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