It’s been nine months since Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico. The Atlantic Ocean is almost three weeks into the 2018 hurricane season. Each Monday through hurricane season, Worldview presents a series called “Puerto Ricanstruction.” We’ll discuss life in Puerto Rico, post-Maria, and the issues important to the people there, and to Chicago’s Puerto Rican Diaspora. This week, we’re joined by Josian Santiago, mayor of Comerío, a mountainous municipality in central Puerto Rico. He was in Chicago to meet Mayor Rahm Emanuel through a Puerto Rican mayors exchange program organized by the Open Society Foundation. Regions like Comerío were most affected and last to be rehabilitated after the hurricane. The Chicago-based not-for-profit, Puerto Rican Agenda, gave mayor Santiago $40,000 to retrofit a community center to be self-sustaining and stormproof. Joining Santiago is Carmen Hernandez, a Chicago-based attorney. Originally from Comerío, she works with the Puerto Rican Agenda. Hernandez also translated the Mayor Santiago’s remarks for Worldview.