Architecture in service of colonial power is not merely a tool of violence but its most persuasive disguise. In Puerto Rico, this violence materializes in impoverished neighborhoods, dilapidated hospitals, hundreds of schools shuttered by design, and in the chronic precarity of utility infrastructures. Most recently, it has taken the form of Esencia: a proposed $2

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