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Puerto Rico’s power grid is in shambles, with blackouts ever more frequent. Now, the island has declared a state of emergency over the condition of its power generation plants. The declaration is designed to speed up the acquisition of essential goods and services to fix the problems, as Cecilio Ortiz Garcia from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley explains to The World’s Marco Werman.