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How Bad Bunny gives voice to Puerto Rico’s ‘crisis generation’
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Bad Bunny's music has opened the world’s eyes to Puerto Rico’s fraught territorial relationship with the US government.
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Patricia Mazzei and Laura N. Perez Sanchez
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, better known as the superstar Bad Bunny, is a proud product of what Puerto Ricans call the “crisis generation”: Those who grew up on the island in the 1990s and 2000s and have little memory of its better days.
He was 12 when Puerto Rico’s economy spiralled into a recession from which it has never recovered.
