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This was a very good article. It's especially helpful to hear from someone who has been to multiple disasters and can say that the response in Puerto Rico was not only insufficient but also practically nonexistent compared to responses to those other disasters.
It is so nice to see the nastiness and hatred of the Right to be fully displayed in this thread. Attacking a woman mayor just because she is begging for help for her people. So shameless.
Im speculating if all this was a set up to rid the island of its people/culture and take advantage of its land/resources. Let me explain.
Since the US acquired Puerto Rico in 1898 it treated the people as second class citizens, moreso in the early stages of its time with the US. Quickly made Puerto Ricans fight for the country, but still to this day cant vote for president. An island populated by spanish speaking mulattos (half black half white), the US even tried to whiten the island (or did) by sterilizing many non-white Puerto Rican women. Before whitening tactics practiced by Spain and the United States between the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s, Puerto Rico was majority black/dark mulatto similar to the Dominican Repulic. And even now Puerto Rico is still dominated by mulattos, its just now its white leaning mulattos instead of black leaning ones, they have both black and white ancestry just more white.
They held many status votes, and the first few strongly favored status quo and then independence, but that began to die in favor of statehood. Puerto Ricans began to have a strongly colonized mindset, first by the Spain and now even more by the US. Since the 1980s the majority of Puerto Rico voted to become a state, but was never allowed to becuz congress didnt allow it. They let Alaska and Hawaii become states but not PR. And during the 1990s, the US Navy did Bomb testing on one of the offshore islands of Vieques, many of the residents have had health problems like Cancer, and protests had to brin it to a end. It is believed that El Yunque rain forest in the northwest has had some not so normal activity. And the Arecibo Observatory is believed to actually belong to Haarp. Puerto Rico now has one of the highest poverty and crime rates under the US flag, by far. And the island is riddled with public housing projects, it has far more than any US state, even the most populated ones, around 300 different housing projects in PR.
As for Puerto Ricans in the mainland, they been migrating there in large numbers since the 1940s, theyve been segregated in poor dangerous ghettos in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, & Miami, similar to the blacks, and werent allowed to be in the same areas as whites. Til this day they have high poverty rates, high incarceration rates, and high high school dropout rates. Theyre areas are some of the poorest and most dangerous, the South Bronx, North Philadelphia, Camden NJ.
Now in recent decades, Puerto Rico's economy is in serious decline and owes money to the banks and wall street. The super rich banksters likely took advantage of Puerto Rico's limbo US territory status. Now PR owes money to them, crippling the economy and causing a exodus especially to Central Florida, and the banks likely did this purposely. Now they caused a catergory 5 hurricane by once of the Haarp weather control stations (Arecibo Observatory), to smack Puerto Rico placing right in the eye causing massive destruction. This is excellerating the exodus. The Super rich banksters nor does the Trump administration care any bit about an island mostly populated by mulatto Hispanics and theyre Latin Caribbean culture, they are obviously very racist and money-hungry. What they do care about is the island itself, its subtropical landcape, its strategic location straight shot from the Panama Canal, its resources. They want to rid the island of most if not all the people, segregated the remaining population. Gentrify it for wealthier White Americans. And have most of yhe island for personal gain and it resources. Place all the Puerto Ricans in mainland ghettos and turn their island into a giant vacation destination for the super rich.
What do you guys think is happening?
Sounds like a good case for PR independence. No one placed PRs in ghettos.
and how many just saw the Republican, female PR representative on TV defending our government and Trump, saying the help was there as fast as they could be. As she said, yes, there is frustration, everyone of all the areas affected by 3 or 4 strong hurricanes are frustrated, but we are doing what we can to help. There is only so much man power to go around.
She seems to have more leadership abilities then Trump who is still playing golf.
More education, more class, empathy, heart, and she stood up to the man. She is fighting for her country. Her whole country, not just the people that voted for her. Please, Mr. Trump, resign and go count your money and play golf. You could have been an average president. You just don't CARE enough.
Chris Gillette writes about covering all sorts of natural disasters in over 30 years in journalism including Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake and observed that disasters on the scale of Hurricane Maria are "usually marked by the inspiring sight of thousands of military and federal emergency personnel flooding into the affected area."
"Navy ships offshore, dozens of helicopters and cargo planes flying overhead, military convoys heading into affected areas with supplies and repair crews."
Yet 2 days after after Hurricane Maria, the airport was virtually empty and "the only traffic on the still flooded highways that Friday consisted of civilians looking for gas, food, water or loved ones in the wake of the storm."
"It was quiet. No military air traffic control units on the tarmac directing planeloads of aid supplies, no bustling command centre sending convoys of trucks to hard-hit areas. No mountains of relief goods stacked and ready to be deployed where needed."
"Where," I asked, "is the cavalry?"
''This is it," said a FEMA guy, "pointing to several dozen National Guard pilots and support people, along with several dozen local and federal officials milling around the Forward Operations Base near the civilian terminal of the airport."
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