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Puerto Rico on brink of humanitarian crisis:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/26/puerto-rico-brink-humanitarian-crisis-media
"Meanwhile, President Donald Trump – usually very active on social media himself – was silent throughout the weekend on Puerto Rico. Instead of standing with those suffering, he chose instead to pick a fight with the NFL. Judging by his actions so far, few trust that he will do anything to bring attention to the devastation on the island, let alone address it in a meaningful way.
Because of Puerto Rico's colonial status, it is consistently ignored, as is clear from the response to this disaster
How are we meant to get the attention of the US president? One person suggested on Twitter: “If anybody reaches their families in #PuertoRico, tell them to #TakeAKnee” – a reference to the kneeling NFL players – “Maybe we’ll get noticed then.”
Political commentator Ana Navarro shared an equally grim idea on Twitter: “Friend from Puerto Rico: How do we get Trump to focus on us? Me: Pick-up Tiki torches, stage a neo-nazi protest. Then he’ll think ur ‘fine people.’”
Agriculture has been wiped out:
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/no-more-agriculture-in-puerto-rico-a-farmer-laments/
YABUCOA, Puerto Rico — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him.
'No more agriculture in Puerto Rico,' a farmer laments
“How do you calculate everything?” Rivera said.
For as far as he could see, every one of his 14,000 trees was down. Same for the yam and sweet-pepper crops. His neighbor, Luis A. Pinto Cruz, known to everyone here as “Piña,” figures he is out about $300,000 worth of crops. The foreman down the street, Félix Ortiz Delgado, spent the afternoon scrounging up the scraps that were left of the farm he manages. He found about a dozen dried ears of corn that he could feed the chickens. The wind had claimed the rest.
“There will be no food in Puerto Rico,” Rivera predicted. “There is no more agriculture in Puerto Rico. And there won’t be any for a year or longer.”
Hurricane Maria made landfall here Wednesday as a Category 4 storm. Its force and fury stripped every tree of not just the leaves, but also the bark, leaving a rich agricultural region looking like the result of a postapocalyptic drought. Rows and rows of fields were denuded. Plants simply blew away."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/26/puerto-rico-brink-humanitarian-crisis-media
"Meanwhile, President Donald Trump – usually very active on social media himself – was silent throughout the weekend on Puerto Rico. Instead of standing with those suffering, he chose instead to pick a fight with the NFL. Judging by his actions so far, few trust that he will do anything to bring attention to the devastation on the island, let alone address it in a meaningful way.
Because of Puerto Rico's colonial status, it is consistently ignored, as is clear from the response to this disaster
How are we meant to get the attention of the US president? One person suggested on Twitter: “If anybody reaches their families in #PuertoRico, tell them to #TakeAKnee” – a reference to the kneeling NFL players – “Maybe we’ll get noticed then.”
Political commentator Ana Navarro shared an equally grim idea on Twitter: “Friend from Puerto Rico: How do we get Trump to focus on us? Me: Pick-up Tiki torches, stage a neo-nazi protest. Then he’ll think ur ‘fine people.’”
Agriculture has been wiped out:
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/no-more-agriculture-in-puerto-rico-a-farmer-laments/
YABUCOA, Puerto Rico — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him.
'No more agriculture in Puerto Rico,' a farmer laments
“How do you calculate everything?” Rivera said.
For as far as he could see, every one of his 14,000 trees was down. Same for the yam and sweet-pepper crops. His neighbor, Luis A. Pinto Cruz, known to everyone here as “Piña,” figures he is out about $300,000 worth of crops. The foreman down the street, Félix Ortiz Delgado, spent the afternoon scrounging up the scraps that were left of the farm he manages. He found about a dozen dried ears of corn that he could feed the chickens. The wind had claimed the rest.
“There will be no food in Puerto Rico,” Rivera predicted. “There is no more agriculture in Puerto Rico. And there won’t be any for a year or longer.”
Hurricane Maria made landfall here Wednesday as a Category 4 storm. Its force and fury stripped every tree of not just the leaves, but also the bark, leaving a rich agricultural region looking like the result of a postapocalyptic drought. Rows and rows of fields were denuded. Plants simply blew away."
