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Álvaro Aponte-Centeno – Loíza

Álvaro Aponte-Centeno Loiza after Maria The strong, penetrating sound of a whistle created by the wind entering the windows of the shelter would never leave my head. It will forever stay in my ears…

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/10/alvaro-aponte-centeno-loiza/

This essay is part of a multimedia work from Loíza, a coastal town in Puerto Rico, where 298 houses were totally destroyed, and it is estimated that Hurricane Maria, the strongest hurricane in the last 100 years to hit Puerto Rico, affected an estimated one thousand homes.