Article Author: Linda Backiel
And then, I think about war
May 1, 2020
Trees no longer holding their arms up to heaven�block the road, intersecting the wrong planes.�The rain does not wash, but slices wind-driven knives�into everything permeable. The dark, a heavy cloak,… READ MORE
A Duel of Dreams
October 1, 2019
Linda Backiel is a criminal defense attorney living in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018),… READ MORE
She Works Like a Man; If a Woman’s Word
September 1, 2018
She Works Like a Man “She works like a man,” that’s whatthe neighbors said. To her daughter’sintensest shame, she works in the fields,like a mule, or man. While the mothersof… READ MORE
Puerto Rico: The Crisis Is About Colonialism, Not Debt
October 1, 2015
Linda Backiel is a criminal defense attorney practicing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tourists are fascinated by the heavy blue cobblestones that pave the streets of Old San Juan. Why… READ MORE
The People of Vieques, Puerto Rico vs. the United States Navy
February 1, 2003
Linda Backiel is a human rights and criminal defense lawyer living in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For current information and background on Vieques, information about joining or supporting the civil… READ MORE