Many in Puerto Rico Care More About Drinking Alcohol More Than Their Own Island -

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Revised 3/13/2024

Hello wild ones, welcome to my website. I have been living on the beautiful paradise for the last 13 years now and I love Boriken and it’s people. I want to see this island thrive and be the paradise that it truly is. For the last 11 years I took it upon myself to take care of the beaches and rivers from trash and raising awareness to this problem as I would walk from beach to beach with signs. Click here to read why I chose to become the self imposed guardian of the beaches.

I also took it upon myself to raise awareness about many of the problems facing this island as I believe there needs to be more people who are vocal about the problems as I find many stay silent.

One of the problems is alcoholism, I believe it is a big problem that contributes to many of the other problems, as such the case with all the trash found throughout the island. Click here to read why alcoholism is a problem no one talks about.

Yesterday I drove up the mountains of the beautiful town of Ciales just to find trash all over the roads as you will find all over the island and newsflash. its not tourist who trash all these roads, nor is it tourist who trash the beaches or rivers. Because it is a majority, not all but many of my brothers and sisters from boriken whom call this home.

You would find the roads scattered with beer cans and bottles and trash as many drink and drive everywhere. They would toss it out of their windows not caring about the very community they live in. The very same communities their families and friends live in who all call home. Because treating this magical island like trash, like a landfill has become culture.

All many care about is drinking, eating and having a good time and that is all many live for. That is what has priority over everything else. I don’t see the respect nor the love for this island the way many love their flag. I see pride but as I always mention, that pride doesn’t mean a thing when you treat what you are prideful for like garbage.

We could blame the government, we could blame education or lack of thereof and many here who are in denial could blame tourists. But ultimately many of the people need to look deep and hard in the mirror and see who has to be the one to rise up and take responsibility for their actions. To open their eyes to see the paradise that they truly live in and this behavior is totally unacceptable when you live in such a magical beautiful paradise that is BORIKEN.

It hurts me to continue to see boriken look like a landfill where ever you go. Hurts me to see how many are blind to this because it has become normal. This is what they pass on to their children. Time to wake up and treat boriken with the respect and love that BORIKEN TRULY DESERVES!

In this following video I share my thoughts on why I believe that many, (not all) of the people care more about drinking, partying, having a good time than they do their own island.