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Puerto Rico reaches out to Taliban for tips on getting US aid
From https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/10/puerto-rico-reaches-out-to-taliban-for-tips-on-getting-us-aid/ :
Puerto Rico reaches out to Taliban for tips on getting US aid
by Joe Zieja
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Weeks after the island of Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, huge swaths of the territory are still without power, running water, or transportation. But the governor of Puerto Rico is trying an innovative approach for getting help from the mainland.
“We are desperate,” Gov. Ricardo Rosselló wrote in an open letter to the Taliban. “People keep pointing to Cuba on a map. Please let us know what you did to get so much help from the U.S. government.”
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The site’s heavily moderated discussion forum has served as a flashpoint for thousands of threads of topics, most of which devolved rapidly into people telling Puerto Ricans to “go back to their own country.”
The Taliban, which received over $630 million per year during Operation Cyclone from the United States in the late 1980s, quickly accepted the outreach effort, and responded with constructive suggestions for Puerto Rico to get the same level of attention as terrorists that would eventually help murder thousands of American citizens.
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by Joe Zieja
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Weeks after the island of Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, huge swaths of the territory are still without power, running water, or transportation. But the governor of Puerto Rico is trying an innovative approach for getting help from the mainland.
“We are desperate,” Gov. Ricardo Rosselló wrote in an open letter to the Taliban. “People keep pointing to Cuba on a map. Please let us know what you did to get so much help from the U.S. government.”
...
The site’s heavily moderated discussion forum has served as a flashpoint for thousands of threads of topics, most of which devolved rapidly into people telling Puerto Ricans to “go back to their own country.”
The Taliban, which received over $630 million per year during Operation Cyclone from the United States in the late 1980s, quickly accepted the outreach effort, and responded with constructive suggestions for Puerto Rico to get the same level of attention as terrorists that would eventually help murder thousands of American citizens.
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