The feds owe Puerto Rican evacuees safe shelter
Yenita Rodriguez, 26, and her two children, Yelianis, 1, and Yelismary, 3, arrived from Puerto Rico on Jan. 24 with $400. She is staying at a hotel in Dedham.
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Many Puerto Ricans adrift in US hotels after Hurricane Maria
In this Jan. 9, 2018 photo, Enghie Melendez sits with her daughters Lidia, left, Alondra, and husband Fernando Moyet in their hotel kitchen in the Brooklyn borough of New York. After they lost their home in Puerto Rico to flooding during Hurricane Maria, Melendez fled with her family to the U.S. mainland with three suitcases and the hope that it wouldn't take long to rebuild their lives.
Tsongas: Puerto Rico needs ‘robust federal partner’
Four months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the devastation and difficulty recovering is still apparent across the island, something that U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas and other members of the congressional delegation from Massachusetts saw firsthand during a visit last week. Officials toured a community health center and a children's hospital, observed damage from a helicopter and met with leaders of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was criticized for an initially slow response, as they work to help the island rebuild.
Life in Puerto Rico dark, desperate without power
Inocencia Rivera, mother of Eduardo Gonzalez, a man who committed suicide three weeks after the passage of Hurricane Maria, stood on her balcony, surrounded by small, solar powered Christmas lights and a Puerto Rican flag in Morovis, Puerto Rico. MOROVIS, Puerto Rico>> Three days before Christmas, Doris Martinez and daughter Miriam Narvaez joined their neighbors in a line outside city hall in Morovis, a town of 30,000 people still living without electricity in the mountains of central Puerto Rico more than three months after Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. island.
Cuomo’s Puerto Rico audition
Count Gov. Cuomo among the Democratic leaders who are responding to the truculent mood sweeping the party's base by serving up tough, pointed critiques of the Republican leadership in Congress and the White House. "In my opinion, the federal government should be ashamed of itself," Cuomo thundered from a podium at Kennedy Airport, condemning the Trump administration's response to the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria.
Worry And Confusion As Puerto Ricans Scramble To Apply For FEMA Aid
Ana Celia Ramos, 58, and husband Jeff Rearden, 53, stand in the remains of their home in Maunabo, a town in south Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria destroyed the roof and walls of the house.
.com | More than 73 000 Puerto Ricans flee to Florida after Hurricane Maria
More than 73 000 people have fled emergency conditions at home to Florida since Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory in the Caribbean. The island of about 3.4 million was ravaged by the megastorm and a majority are still without electricity, while others in isolated areas are continue to await services and help.
Liberty Elementary celebrates vibrant Hispanic culture
Liberty Elementary School students wave the flags of different Latin American countries at the annual Hispanic Heritage Month presentation Friday. The girl second in line is waving the Puerto Rican flag, and students performed a dance in honor of the U.S. territory slowly recovering from widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.
San Juan residents pitch in with cleanup, lifting their own spirits
Puerto Rican society is starting to mirror the island's jarring post-Maria natural landscape, where the ghostly gray-brown of wind-slashed tropical trees is already being overtaken by the iridescent green of emphatic new growth. Roberto Figueroa Caballero sits on a small table in his destroyed home Oct. 5 in the La Perla neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, a stunning silence
I was stunned as I walked through the darkened and humid arrivals terminal at San Juan's International Airport two days after Hurricane Maria blasted its way across Puerto Rico. It was quiet.
HHS augments medical care at hospitals in Puerto Rico impacted by Hurricane Maria
The Department of Health and Human Services medical staff today will assist two more partially operational medical facilities and a shelter in Puerto Rico as part of the Trump administration's relief efforts for the U.S. territories impacted by Hurricane Maria. Last night, HHS began providing assistance at four medical facilities.
Hurricane Maria a reminder of a second-classa status for some
Xavier Totti moved to the mainland United States from his native Puerto Rico 43 years ago. He is still asked routinely if he is "legal," and when he mails packages to relatives back home, he has to fill out an international form.
Puerto Rico’s In America
When I was a kid we made racist Puerto Rican jokes. We made lots of racist jokes because there were a lot of racist jokes around and we were kids so we just echoed them.
a Youa re going straight to hell,a Lin-Manuel Miranda tells Trump after Puerto Rico tweets
Many have made impassioned responses to President Donald Trump's tweets in which he criticized the leadership in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico and implied its people are passing the buck on the U.S. territory's recovery. "You're going straight to hell," tweeted Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Strong words from Trump, San Juan mayor over recovery pace
29, 2017, in Washington. . Acting Homeland Secretary Elaine Duke, left, talks to first responders during her visit Friday, Sept.
Puerto Rico under a flash flood watch as the wait for supplies drags on
Ten days after Hurricane Maria began to crash into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm, the island is dealing with a humanitarian crisis as millions remain without electricity and water, and limited access to gas and cash. The majority of the US commonwealth is without power, with the exception of people and facilities using generators, the US Energy Department says.
Maria dims Puerto Rico’s bleak economic outlook
For now, the focus has shifted from Puerto Rico's financial woes to meeting the basic needs of its 3.5 million people, many of whom still lack adequate food, water and power more than a week since the Category 4 hurricane laid waste to the U.S. territory. But as Puerto Rico emerges from the worst of the disaster, it will still face a $74 billion public debt load and a decade-old economic recession that has sent hundreds of thousands of islanders fleeing to the U.S. mainland.
Puerto Ricans say Trump’s disaster response was too slow, too clumsy
Residents of Puerto Rico accused President Donald Trump of being slow to dispatch aid after Hurricane Maria and clumsy in his public remarks once it was clear the U.S. territory had been devastated by the storm. After days of urging, Trump on Thursday temporarily lifted restrictions on foreign shipping from the U.S. mainland to Puerto Rico to move aid more quickly and the Pentagon appointed a senior general to oversee military relief operations.
Trump tweets about Puerto Rico problems, as feds rush aid
The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump brought up the island's struggles before Hurricane Maria struck - including "billions of dollars" in debt to "Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with." The Trump administration has tried to blunt criticism that its response to Hurricane Maria has fallen short of its efforts in Texas and Florida after the recent hurricanes there.
hurricane Tracker: 70,000 Puerto Ricans told to flee failing dam
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