Hurricane Fiona barrelled into Puerto Rico in September this year, leaving mass destruction, catastrophic flooding, and hundreds of thousands of people without power and water in its wake.\r\n\r\nThe island was still reeling from the devastation left behind by Hurricanes Irma and Maria just five years earlier.\r\n\r\nPuerto Rico’s infrastructure and population remain in an exceptionally vulnerable state, especially given the island’s struggling economy.\r\n\r\nOn UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to the former mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin Cruz about how the island can recover enough to withstand a future climate disaster.\r\n\r\nSubscribe to our channel  http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe\r\nFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish\r\nFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera\r\nCheck our website:  http://www.aljazeera.com/\r\nCheck out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/\r\n\r\n@AljazeeraEnglish\r\n#Aljazeeraenglish\r\n#News

With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.

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Through rigorous debate, Marc Lamont Hill cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom.

<p>Through rigorous debate, Marc Lamont Hill cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom.</p>