Puerto Rican Town Where Trump Tossed Paper Towels To Desperate Residents Still Doesn't Have Water or

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Puerto Rican Town Where Trump Tossed Paper Towels To Desperate Residents Still Doesn't Have Water or Electricity

https://splinternews.com/puerto-rican-town-where-trump-tossed-paper-towels-to-de-1819362247




Rafi Schwartz
Wednesday 1:34pmFiled to: Puerto Rico


Large swaths of Puerto Rico are still without electricity or access to clean drinking water after Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on the island, including the City of Guaynabo, where President Trump infamously chucked rolls of paper towel into the crowd during his recent visit.

News of the dire circumstances in Guaynabo comes more than a week after Trump visited an aid station in the community, where he also insisted that residents “don’t need” flashlights “anymore.”

“There’s no electricity, and water has arrived at two or three neighborhoods, but very few,” Roberto Garcia, an assistant to Mayor Ángel Pérez Otero, told BuzzFeed’s Nidhi Prakash in a story published on Wednesday. (Prakash is a former reporter for Fusion.)

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During his visit to Guaynabo, Trump participated in a brief walking tour of one of the municipality’s more upscale neighborhoods, during which the president surveyed several relatively undamaged areas and exchanged niceties with local residents. However, despite Trump’s cheery forecast for recovery in the area—and Puerto Rico as a whole—residents of the San Juan suburb have described a decidedly different situation on the ground.

“We’re looking for help. Everyone is without water and electricity. The house was flooded and the food is all ruined,” Luz E. Cruz told BuzzFeed. “The very little that I have heard, because I don’t have a radio, is that we’re all waiting for the help to arrive…Because some of the roads are still not clear, help is slow to arrive. So you have to go find it yourself. But you don’t even know where to go unless a neighbor happens to know and we talk amongst ourselves.”

Another resident told the site that Guaynabo’s hardships pale in comparison to other areas of the island, which Trump conspicuously avoided on his visit to survey the damage....................................


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Did you see the 800 bed ship with 7 patients? Trump purposely

is destroying our government and it's ability to function.

He is at war with Americans, he is actively trying to kill us.

He just told the health insurers there will be no subsidy payments, so millions will be homeless a year from now and tens of thousands dead.

I wish someone would get mad.

[riversedge]

2. yes. Maddow reported on it last night.

[bdamomma]

3. who someone?????

it should be us shouldn't it??? About destroying the country this was Bannon's ultimate dream, to dismantle the US from within and it's happening. Will we be the ones to cower for this regime??? or will we rise for the occasion?.