San Juan's heroic mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz, was the face of the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, as she walked San Juan's streets to check on families and to demand assistance for our fellow Americans from a stingy and neglectful government. While the commonwealth's meek governor, Ricardo Rosselló chose to embrace and flatter incompetent bigot Donald "Rump" Trump, who infamously tossed paper towels to a crowd of San Juan residents, Cruz spoke up strongly and often about the poor response the island was getting from the mainland, and incurred Rump's anger.
In an interview on MSNBC yesterday, Cruz bluntly and correctly accused Rump of violating Puerto Rico's human rights by neglecting to provide adequate resources -- electricity, medicine, food, shelter, etc. -- after the hurricane. As we noted Friday, the death toll from Maria has reached 4,645 -- American citizens -- according to a comprehensive Harvard University report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to Cruz:
“President Trump tweets about the crack of dawn, and he hasn’t even tweeted one time to say ‘Look, I mourn with the people of Puerto Rico. So this total neglect has to be called upon. The United Nations says that when people are denied their right to access to basic human services, like electric power, like water, like food, like appropriate medical care, that it is a violation of human rights.”Rest assured, the malignant Rump won't be tweeting condolences anytime soon over the great loss of life in Puerto Rico. To him, they weren't real Americans, and they couldn't vote in Presidential elections, so if they're treated inhumanely, what difference does it make? Here's hoping the estimated 500,000 Puerto Ricans who have migrated to the mainland -- where they can easily establish residency and vote -- will long remember Rump's despicable neglect and vote accordingly. We will.
(photo: Rump commits multiple fouls.)
