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In this Nov. 15 photo, Pedro Deschamps helps workers hired by FEMA to carry out the installation of a temporary awning roof at his house, which suffered damage during Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Jorge Ferrer
Hurricane Maria removed the delusions of prosperity and first-world status that blinded so many to the realities of Puerto Rico, including the fragility of its infrastructure, its high levels of social inequality and its status as a U.S. colony.
Politics & SocietyVideo
America Video
In the Puerto Rican town of Orocovis, 1,000 people lost their homes in Hurricanes Maria and Irma. There, graduate students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico are providing social and psychological services to help residents who have lost everything start to rebuild their homes and their lives.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Tim Padgett
Hallacas are unique among the other tamales popular in Latin America.
A photo of Blessed Oscar Romero is displayed as a YSAX radio volunteer works in the studio on Dec. 9 in San Salvador, El Salvador. In San Salvador's traffic jams or at work, people turn on radio YSAX to listen to Blessed Romero's homilies, just as they did over 30 years ago. (CNS photo/Melissa Vida) 
Politics & SocietyNews
Melissa Vida - Catholic News Service
From the 1970s until his assassination in March 1980, Blessed Romero used the radio station YSAX to inform Salvadorans and the international community of the horrors of El Salvador's civil war.
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
The pope sent the cardinal to the hurricane-battered island to make a visit before Christmas to express his deep concern for the people.