After Hurricanes Maria and Irma, Puerto Rico all but slipped from the modern era. The human and economic damage wrought by all that time without power may be irreparable.https://nyti.ms/2FVZMTp
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Here’s a look back at what’s been happening in Puerto Rico since the hurricanes hitpic.twitter.com/RAL3LVPcrs
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In September, a week after Hurricane Maria, New York Times reporters and photographers spent 24 hours with people trying to survive the catastrophe left behind https://nyti.ms/2KLUqOf pic.twitter.com/JnTlo5syyx
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Our reporters witnessed a woozy empire of wreckage; of waiting in line for food, water and gas and then finding another line to wait in some morehttps://twitter.com/luisferre/status/912671098306736128 …
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In October, Whitefish Energy, a 2-employee company from Montana, was awarded a $300 million contract to rebuild 100 miles of power transmission lines. After a scandal erupted, the government canceled the deal.https://nyti.ms/2KLbR1I
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In December, a review by The New York Times of daily mortality data indicated a significantly higher death toll in Puerto Rico after the hurricane than the government there has acknowledgedhttps://nyti.ms/2KHKJR0
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3 months after the storms,
@sherifink provided a look inside Puerto Rico's largest housing project for low-income seniors. She helped explain the hurricanes' continuing impact on the vulnerable. https://nyti.ms/2FVbq14 pic.twitter.com/CN7h3X8vpQ
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In January,
@itscaitlinhd and@nytvideo took us inside Puerto Rico’s only suicide prevention call center, where the phones were ringing constantly https://nyti.ms/2KK7K5K pic.twitter.com/EGiv8qXbqlShow this thread -
A one-woman company was awarded a huge contract by FEMA to provide 30 million meals to hungry people in Puerto Rico. Only 50,000 were delivered.https://nyti.ms/2KK7R1a
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Almost everybody in Puerto Rico had their lights back on — until a freak accident on April 18 briefly plunged the entire island into darkness once againhttps://nyti.ms/2KJ9ZpS
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More than 6 months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria swept across Puerto Rico, people are still without power. The hurricane season returns in June. https://nyti.ms/2KJarV6 pic.twitter.com/EgwMdvsHMc
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The mystery: Electrical grid hell at the Caribbean! Corruption saga of a putrid government!
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This is absolutely not the fault of Puerto Rico's government, we all know who is responsible
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Armies of repair men should of taken over there , so sad of Amerca not doing enough to aid .
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POLITICAL CORRUPTION has PREVENTED any MEANINGFUL Recovery!
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what your not telling the people is the danger that all power companies that went there to help get the electric back on was tremendous. Workers had to be escorted by an gunman, was not allowed to leave their camp. The so called PR Govt. power grid would not release needed equip
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America is responsible for this.
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More the Puerto Rican government kept aid from its citizens.
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