Puerto Rico: The Aftermath
Hurricane Maria has been the worst tropical storm to hit the island in over 80 years and the effects have been nothing but catastrophic. The hurricane was a Category 5, and it nearly destroyed the island, Puerto Rico's power grid has been destroyed and the infrastructure has been destroyed and 80% of residents are without electricity.
The Trump administration has been very slow in responding to the crisis and the Mayor of San Juan was the only one that took matters into her own hands by going into affected areas with rescue teams to get people out of their where there trapped by the flooding and roadblocks and the world has seen firsthand how Puerto Rico has been treated by the United States Government.
Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States ever since they invaded the island and forcibly took Puerto Rico from Spain after the end of the Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans were made into US citizens without their say and Puerto Ricans have been in every major war since World War I and Puerto Ricans pay taxes and have served in the Military and Navy and yet Puerto Ricans are seen and treated like foreigners and second class citizens.
Puerto Rico is $74 million dollars in debt and with the hurricane which caused $30 billion in damages added to the already $74 billion putting the debt in the Trillions. Puerto Rico is going to need to go through a economic and political transformation in order to full rebuild and reconstruct itself. And the Trump Administration has done nothing but demonize and put down the Puerto Rican people because of the debt and economic problems on the island.
Puerto Rico is on the verge of starvation and a major humanitarian crisis and the Trump Administration needs to put its politics and red-tape aside and focus on what is most important: Saving Lives and getting the aid to where it needs to be period. Puerto Rico needs all the help it can get from anywhere and anyone period.
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