Abstract
The COVID-19 global pandemic brings about a new episode in the multi-layered
political, economic and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006.
The 14-years-long crisis has been marked by the U.S. and P.R. governments'
imposition of a permanent state of exception to deal with an economic crisis,
bankruptcy, hurricanes, swarms of earthquakes and a pandemic. This paper argues
that uses of the state of exception and executive orders created a regime of
permission for corruption, state-corporate crimes and human rights violations,
while exacerbating the impact of the pandemic, and manufacturing the conditions
for further disasters. The paper engages in a sociolegal analysis of the cases
of corruption and state-corporate crimes in the procurement of COVID-19
test-kits and medical equipment, and the role of the pharmaceutical corporations
in undermining PR's capacity to react to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Subject
Law,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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17 articles.
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