La isla de la fantasia

El colonialismo, la explotacion y la traicion a Puerto Rico

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By Ed Morales

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On Sale
Nov 5, 2019
Page Count
448 pages
Publisher
Bold Type Books
ISBN-13
9781541762992

Price

$21.99

Price

$28.99 CAD

Un recuento crucial y preciso de los 122 anos de Puerto Rico como colonia de los EE. UU.

A dos años del huracán María, Puerto Rico aún sigue recuperándose de la destrucción física de la tormenta y el colapso de la infraestructura resultante. La devastación agravó los efectos dañinos de más de un siglo causados por la explotación de Estados Unidos con sus políticas económicas, sociales y de asuntos políticos, incluido el trauma infligido por su crisis de deuda de 72 mil millones de dólares.

En La isla de la fantasía, el periodista Ed Morales describe cómo, a lo largo de los años, Puerto Rico ha servido como un satélite colonial, una vitrina de la Guerra Fría del Caribe, un vertedero de productos manufacturados en Estados Unidos y un refugio fiscal corporativo. Emprendiendo al lector en un viaje ida y vuelta de San Juan a la ciudad de Nueva York, La isla de la fantasía es un relato crucial y claro de los 122 años de Puerto Rico como colonia de los Estados Unidos.


  • "The hurricanes, the debt, the depopulation. Ed Morales has written an urgent, fascinating, and impassioned portrait of Puerto Rico, the world's oldest colony."
    Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
  • "Ed Morales has put together a compelling indictment of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico, based on journalistic and academic sources as well as his personal experiences as a New York-born Puerto Rican who cares deeply about his ancestral homeland. His work is an engaging, compassionate, well-documented, and crisply written analysis of the political, economic, and demographic downturn of the Island, after more than a decade of economic recession and almost two years since hurricane Maria."
    Jorge Duany, author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know
  • "Ambitious, intimidating, and beautiful...This book will be particularly important to readers with a connection to Puerto Rico and useful and thought-provoking to anyone else seeking to understand capitalism's past, present, and future."
    Library Journal
  • "[An] eye-opening economic and political history... [Morales's] technical yet impassioned polemic will persuade those with a keen interest in the subject."
    Publishers Weekly

Ed Morales

About the Author

Ed Morales is the author of Latinx, The Latin Beat, and Living in Spanglish. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Nation, among others. He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. He lives in New York City.

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