Nearly 80 days after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's green is returning but recovery is slow.

The Role of Private Investment in Rebuilding Puerto Rico

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 8, 2018

Yarimar Bonilla, associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (University Of Chicago Press, 2015), and Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, talk about the role of private investment in rebuilding Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria — and how it may fundamentally change the island.

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