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Confronting Colonial Capitalism

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and in the midst of a power outage that left tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans without electricity for months, former Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló laid out a plan to rescue the island. It could be described in one word: privatization. The first target would be the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), which—weakened by years of austerity and mismanagement—had been especially vulnerable to the wrath of Maria. Hundreds of public schools would be closed; hundreds more would be replaced by privately run charter schools. And privatization would not stop there: almost everything was on the table, from highways to national parks. As Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce told The Intercept, “We do expect that similar things will happen in other infrastructure sectors.” Thanks in no small part to the work of Naomi Klein, the story of post-Maria Puerto Rico is a familiar one. In her 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Klein first explored “the deliberate exploitation of states of emergency to push through a radical pro-corporate agenda.” In her more recent project, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists, Klein pivots to Puerto Rico and again demonstrates why her framework remains invaluable for making sense of why disasters are so good for business.