Juana Díaz

The donated powerhouses will ensure reliable running water is pumped to the steep hillside communities in Juana Diaz, where electricity is still spotty seven months after Category 4 storm.

In the last two weeks, volunteer doctors and other officials have visited incommunicado communities in Añasco, Ciales, Comerío, Juana Díaz, Las Marías, Maricao, San Lorenzo and Yauco, officials said Friday.

When speaking about his town’s destruction, Ramon Hernandez Torres, mayor of the southern city of Juana Diaz, took a long pause, his voice catching and his eyes filling with tears.

Like me, Dr. Ortiz Cuadra did not personally encounter the word, or the bird, until the mid-90s, at a ramshackle tent selling spit-roasted pork and turkey in Juana Diaz, in the center of the island.

These pics are from the south of the island Juana Diaz!