Bad Bunny's new video is more than just his song 'El Apagón' — it's a documentary highlighting injustices and inequalities that Puerto Ricans have been grappling with for years.
, issues of gentrification and the ensuing displacement impacting the island’s residents.
Yaisha Marie Thodes felt her eyes start to water when she saw her own great-grandmother featured in Bad Bunny’s video. Javier Tomas, 27 and a resident of both Puerto Rico and New York, told NBC News that he has personally experienced tons of blackouts living in the island. He said Bad Bunny's video is a “clear description” of the reality that Puerto Ricans live day by day.
"El Apagón" resonates with residents who have been grappling with an aging and deteriorating power grid even before the destruction from Hurricanes Maria and now Fiona, and who have been very critical of price increases and rolling blackouts after a private company took over Puerto Rico’s energy transmission and distribution system.
“It’s part of this whole selling of Puerto Rico that our Bad Bunny talks about in the video, where we see that our natural resources are being sold, that our beaches are being sold, that the environment is not being taken care of,” Roberto Cruz, managing attorney for, a civil rights organization formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, said.
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