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By: Erin Sheridan July 18, 2019July 18, 2019
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A Portrait of Elizam Escobar
One Decade Later, Villas Del Sol Is Still Rebuilding

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Instagram post 2155494795854013501_12838680029 “Las Gladiolas Vive: Inside Puerto Rico’s Plan To Eliminate Public Housing” republished in today’s edition of @truthout under the title “Puerto Rico’s ‘Redevelopment’ Plan Is Displacing Low-Income Residents”. Link in bio!
Instagram post 2152662400255711198_12838680029 From the story “Las Gladiolas Vive: Inside Puerto Rico’s Plan To Eliminate Public Housing” // 1. Colón’s granddaugher explains how the smart key works. June 2019 // 2. An empty lot across the street from Renaissance Square where residents have to go in order to smoke cigarettes. March 2019. Link in bio.
Instagram post 2152658485014249361_12838680029 From the story, “Las Gladiolas Vive: Inside Puerto Rico’s Plan To Eliminate Public Housing” // “We’re the ones suffering the consequences. It’s the same people who support this privatization who think that we’re lazy and that we don’t work. In reality, this is an essential public service. Where are poor people going to live in this country?” Link in bio.
Instagram post 2149319463337893948_12838680029 From the article “Las Gladiolas Vive: Inside Puerto Rico’s Plan To Eliminate Public Housing” // “Our community was ‘bulldozed’ every single day so that these agencies could achieve what they wanted. People couldn’t take it anymore.” // Link in bio 📸
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Instagram post 2099057622422906575_12838680029 @urbeapie in photos 📸
Instagram post 2099057000273349563_12838680029 @urbeapie in photos 📸
Instagram post 2096537686106374878_12838680029 Crucito de la Cruz stands outside his family’s temporary shelter at Villas del Sol, June 2019.
Instagram post 2095174469325043510_12838680029 Lupita, a longtime Villas del Sol resident, stands in her nearly-finished kitchen, June 2019.
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Instagram post 2091577575938833996_12838680029 From the story ‘One Decade Later, Villas Del Sol Is Still Rebuilding” // “We were the only community in Puerto Rico that was under 24-hour police surveillance. We didn’t have light or water,” she says. “Officials would ask vulnerable families for their information in exchange for food and water. They would collect the names of family members and issue subpoenas to take the children away.”
Instagram post 2090973552015047744_12838680029 From the story ‘One Decade Later, Villas Del Sol Is Still Rebuilding’ // On August 3, 2009, Laura Motta Vázquez was asleep in her home on the outskirts of Toa Baja when she heard a knock at the door. She climbed out of bed, noting the time – 4:30 a.m. – assuming that her neighbor, a close friend, had come early to drink his coffee before work. “He told me, ‘It’s black out here.’ There was urgency in his voice. He kept repeating it. ‘You need to get out here and see this. Now.’” // Link in bio!
Instagram post 2090836242086710913_12838680029 #RickyRenuncia 📸 Link to gallery in bio!
Instagram post 2090276975931717149_12838680029 Image for post 2090276975931717149_12838680029
Instagram post 2077101655032565457_12838680029 With @urbeapie at @cafeteatroel in March. 📸
Instagram post 2076379439025040415_12838680029 “In 1999, Escobar and 12 former FALN members were granted clemency by then-president Bill Clinton. A free man, he returned to Puerto Rico and began teaching at Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño in San Juan. Hundreds of practicing Puerto Rican artists have been his students, have learned his techniques, and have sat through semesters absorbing his radical musings.”
Instagram post 2076371223894627012_12838680029 “In art, you don’t have to prove anything because art is its own evidence. The symbolic level — to me it’s the limit of freedom. It’s what you do with the symbolism that matters. You can use it to create ignorance, or you can use it to liberate people.” - @elizamescobar.
Instagram post 2076370381962257129_12838680029 From ‘A Portrait of @elizamescobar’: “A drawing of a sugar cane field reminiscent of Escobar’s rural upbringing won first prize in a competition with a fellow student. His drawings won a television competition twice. The prize each time was two Brownie cameras — both of which twice quickly disappeared into the hands of older family members.”
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