It is a great story and dramatic photo, residents of Charco Abajo (“the puddle underneath”) whose bridge washed away, using a supermarket cart and pulley system to get stuff more easily across the river. But wait, what is that in the background? A backhoe and a dump truck? Maybe the government hasn’t forgotten them… maybe it takes a long time to repair a washed out bridge, and repairs have indeed started? Maybe goldminers are looting the river in the post-hurricane chaos? The reporter (Caitlin Dickerson) does not say… it would have been nice to have a short paragraph about who has organized the recovery (or looting!?) underway in the background of the photo.
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- Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- The Corner that Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Flux, by Jinwoo Chong
- V.V. Ganeshananthan’s novel “Brotherless Night”
- Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987, by James E. Genova
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