All Articles on Hurricane Maria
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Views Puerto Rico’s Botched Disaster Relief, Unsustainable Debt, and Economic Failure Linked to its Colonial Status How can this scale of corruption, overseen by the US Congress, even happen? Read more |
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News 'Unhinged, Insensitive, and Lying': Trump Uses Bar Graph to Spread Falsehood About Puerto Rico Hurricane Aid "His racism knows no boundaries," said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Read more |
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News Democrats Demand White House Hand Over Documents on Trump's "Abominable" Hurricane Response in Puerto Rico House Democrats also requested records and communications from FEMA "regarding mass graves found in Puerto Rico." Read more |
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News To End Crushing Debt, Warren Introduces Relief Package to Help Storm-Ravaged Puerto Rico 'Recover With Dignity' "Over the past several years, Puerto Rico has been living with an economic noose around its neck due to its crippling debt crisis and the devastation created by Hurricane Maria." Read more |
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Views A Political Stalemate Over Puerto Rican Aid Is Leaving All US Disaster Funding in Limbo Within two weeks of that storm, which killed an estimated 3,000 people, Trump accused Puerto Ricans in a series of tweets of wanting "everything to be done for them." Read more |
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News Researchers Tie Climate Crisis to Hurricane Maria's Record-Breaking Rainfall Over Puerto Rico "Due to anthropogenic climate change it is now much more likely that we get these hurricanes that drop huge amounts of precipitation." Read more |
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Further On Toddler Torturers: There Are Some Lines That Simply Can't Be Crossed Photo by John Moore/Getty Images Secretary of Cruelty Kirstjen 'I Put Kids In Cages and Then Lie About It' Nielsen is out, which we'd love to celebrate except she was tossed because she wasn't sufficiently horrifying: She didn't kidnap enough terrified children or jail enough innocent parents or... Read more |
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Views Trump's Disdain for Puerto Rico Should Be His Undoing Trump sees the U.S. colony as a personification of his usual enemies Read more |
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News 'He Is Unhinged': San Juan Mayor Rips Trump for Lies About Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief "He knows his response was inefficient at best. Shame on you!" Carmen Yulín Cruz said in response to the president's Twitter tirade Read more |
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News 'Vindictive Behavior': Trump Complains Puerto Rico Getting 'Too Much' Disaster Aid as Over a Million Face Food Crisis "He continues to make the humanitarian crisis worse. He is ensuring that people don't have food to put on the table," said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Read more |