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Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com)
Almost a year after two hurricanes ravaged the US territory, repair crews are working to energize the more than 950 homes and businesses that remain without power in hard-to-reach areas. Puerto Ricans remain fearful that their newly returned normality could be short lived. An anonymous reader shares a report: Lights are slowly coming on for the more than 950 homes and businesses across Puerto Rico that remain without power in hard-to-reach areas. Repair crews sometimes have to dig holes by hand and scale down steep mountainsides to reach damaged light posts. Electrical poles have to be ferried in one-by-one via helicopter. It is slow work, and it has stretched nearly two months past the date when officials had promised that everyone in Puerto Rico would be energized. And even as TVs glow into the night and people like delivery man Steven Vilella once again savor favorite foods like shrimp and Rocky Road ice cream, many fear their newly returned normality could be short-lived. Turmoil at the island's power company and recent winds and rains that knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of people at the start of the new hurricane season have them worried.
When the Governor decided to start trashing the USA recovery effort (because of Trump) while standing in front of huge piles of relief supplies, I lost my sympathy.
Puerto Rico was failed by the USA
They can't be "failed," they're a territory and have no rights.
Frankly, independence and membership in CARICOM might be a better solution
We don't give up property.
> If Puerto Rico were whiter then the White House might have bothered lifting more than one finger in trying to help them.
So Houston and Florida are "white" now? What utter deranged nonsense.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
You don't care about red, white, and blue patriotism and the Puerto Rican citizen. You want two extra Democratic senators.
Now the Republicans don't want it for the same reason, but are not being frauds about it.
Anyway, this is about corruption and letting the elected, corrupt politicians down there suffer the slings and arrows of the local populace, in hopes of building a better system, and more clearly, to stop yet more corruption and funds siphoning of a massive influx of federal dollars.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.