Graciousness and tenacity in pictures from storm-wrecked Puerto Rico – The Washington Post

For three decades, I’ve been traveling throughout Latin America, though I had never made it to Puerto Rico. I finally made it there last week, and my first visit was not under the best of circumstances. Hurricane Maria had taken a terrible trajectory, right over this emerald gem. It turned forests into lifeless patches of bare trunks and plunged the island back into the preindustrial era. There is no electricity in most of the territory, and running water is scarce.