The diaspora’s mobilization and impact has produced an unprecedented context for reimagining Puerto Rican political power. From above, this is evident in that the island’s main daily El Nuevo Día now runs frequent news items about Puerto Ricans living in the United States, including “Desde la diáspora” (“From the diaspora”), a column written by US Puerto Ricans. The government of Ricardo Rosselló also launched a voter registration initiative in Orlando, Florida, called Poder Puerto Rico, which seeks to organizar la diáspora (“organize the diaspora”) so it can provide the island with mollero político (“political muscle”) in US politics (Marcial Ocasio 2018). From below, island practices of autogestión (“radical self-management”) increasingly imagine diaspora members as part of the local community. A compelling example is Humacao’s various self-governance initiatives in el Barrio Mariana after hurricane Maria. Commenting on the rehabilitation of an abandoned school, community leader Christine Nieves of Proyecto Apoyo Mutuo states that the space will be one where “those volunteers coming from outside of Puerto Rico can join those people who live here in Mariana to generate sustainable solutions”[5] (El Nuevo Día 2018).