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Displaced and Refugees

Too Little, Too Late: Trump dedicates Golf Trophy to Puerto Rico as he readies to Fly there

Juan Cole 10/02/2017

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – –

Trump dedicated a golf trophy to Puerto Rico Sunday, as he prepared to fly to the island on a propaganda tour.

Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré maintains that the Trump administration lacks a sense of scale when it comes to hurricane relief. The effort, he says, was too small, and the military should have been sent in immediately. Instead, he said, Trump was playing golf.

CBS: “Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore slams government’s Puerto Rico relief effort”

95% of the island is still without electricity.. You can’t pay for crucial things like gas, kerosene or food with a credit card because the stores don’t have electricity. If you can get to an ATM that is working, you have to stand in long lines.

91% of cell phones are out of service, since Hurricane Maria knocked down 1,360 out of 1600 cell phone towers. Even fat pipes were destroyed, with 85% of telephone and internet cable wiped out.

Plus the US military now says that 55% of Puerto Ricans lack access to clean water. Lack of clean water means that the water they are drinking is high in bacteria. Many hospitals are seeing unprecedented outbreaks of gastroenteritis because of the dirty water.

Only 36 of the island’s 69 hospitals have power.

Filed Under: Displaced and Refugees, Donald Trump, Featured, Puerto Rico

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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