The COVID-19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico: Exceptionality, Corruption and State-Corporate Crimes

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