Nine months after Hurricane Maria ripped through and ripped apart Puerto Rico with its forceful winds and torrential rain that knocked out the island’s power grid and wiped out much of its infrastructure and crops, the island still struggles with monumental impediments to recovery.

Elisa Llenza, a Puerto Rican citizen-journalist and activist, provides an on-the-ground report on how the island is trying to weather the social, political and economic storms that now beset the island.