HURRICANE MARIA: Puerto Rico mayor begs for aid, accuses Trump of inefficiency

The Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz is pleading for international aid as battered Puerto Rico recovers from hurricane Maria’s ruinous aftermath with desperation on the high.

Cruz also accused the administration of President Donald Trump who pledged to spare no effort to help Puerto Ricans’ recover from Hurricane Maria of “killing us with the inefficiency”.

“We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency,” Cruz said in a news conference. “I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying. This is a people-are-dying story.”

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She implored Trump on Friday to “make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives”, while the president asserted US officials and emergency personnel are working all-out against daunting odds, with “incredible” results.

Thousands more Puerto Ricans got water and rationed food on Friday as an aid bottleneck began to ease.

Telecommunications are back for about 30 percent of the island, nearly half of the supermarkets have reopened at least for reduced hours, and about 60 percent of the petrol stations are pumping.

 

 

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