Querido Boricua

Waiting for Muchachos

Living in Puerto Rico in the midst of a health system collapse.

Jun 1 • 

Steven Casanova

6

April 2025

StateHooded, part I: Haoles of Humacao

Two native Hawaiians defended their village against an armed foreigner, and now they are doing years in federal prison. Here is lo que le pasó a…

Apr 23 • 

Steven Casanova

3

3

January 2025

The “Drunk Arsonist” needs to be tried for hate crime, or else it will set a dangerous precedent.

In any other context, it’d be racial terror, but in this case they want us to say “sh*t happens in Puerto Rico.”

Jan 8 • 

Steven Casanova

3

November 2024

Yellow In Spite of Myself

The Carlisle Indian School and Puerto Rico.

Nov 15, 2024 • 

Steven Casanova

4

1

October 2024

Don’t Get Locked Up in Puerto Rico

We were decades ahead in abolishing capital punishment, yet the state meets people with death at a staggering rate.

Oct 11, 2024 • 

Steven Casanova

3

Not @cheapgarlic anymore, now Querido Boricua

Querido Boricua,

Oct 10, 2024 • 

Steven Casanova

3

March 2024

The Lady In The Sabra Hat

Food deserts are not natural, and neither are famines.

Mar 4, 2024 • 

Steven Casanova

6

July 2023

Touring Through Vanishing Fields of Coffee

Agritourism is a symptom of disaster capitalism and it threatens life and land in the mountains of Puerto Rico.

Jul 1, 2023 • 

Steven Casanova

4

April 2023

Notes from two years without a fridge

A small, practical response to energy poverty and our suffering guts

Apr 21, 2023 • 

Steven Casanova

2

1

February 2023

Azúcar Morena, anti-Blackness in non English

How colonialism perpetuates racism in the sugar islands.

Feb 18, 2023 • 

Steven Casanova

4

January 2023

Start here: Context is everything

A year ago my dad stole $50,000 from Alex and I, essentially every penny we’d ever saved. By his telling, he was trying to help us. By mine, it was the…

Jan 30, 2023 • 

Steven Casanova

9

4

December 2022

Swiping Chocolate, by the bag full

The robberies that made chocolate and divided the world.

Dec 15, 2022 • 

Steven Casanova

3