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    Puerto Rican CEO: Local government 'corrupt' and 'totally inexperienced' in Maria cleanup

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    Jorge Rodriguez, CEO of PACIV
    11 hours ago
    October 1, 2017

    The head of an international engineering firm in Puerto Rico said in an editorial Saturday that when the time came to send 50 of his engineers to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, he bypassed local officials and went straight to FEMA.

    The reason, said Jorge Rodriguez, the CEO of PACIV, in an editorial in the New York Post, is that “for the last 30 years, the Puerto Rican government has been completely inept at handling regular societal needs, so I just don’t see it functioning in a crisis like this one.”

    “Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken. And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.”

    Puerto Ricans elected a new governor last November but, Rodriguez charged, he was inexperienced and had never been responsible for a budget.

    Gov. Ricardo Rossello cannot exactly count on those around him either, Rodriguez asserted.

    “His entire administration is totally inexperienced and they have no clue how to handle a crisis of this magnitude,” said Rodriguez, who has a graduate business degree from Harvard Business School and was named a “Most Distinguished Graduate” by the University of Puerto Rico.

    Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken. And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.
    - Jorge Rodriguez, CEO of PACIV, Puerto Rico-based engineering firm

    Rodriguez’s criticism follows that of many experts and members of Congress, who note that Puerto Rico was mired in financial chaos well before Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico was facing a $74 billion public debt load and a decade-old economic recession – sending hundreds of thousands of islanders fleeing to the U.S. mainland.

    Now, many areas on the mainland, such as Florida, New York and Massachusetts, that have large Puerto Rican communities are bracing themselves for still more islanders to throng to them.

    “Puerto Rico has exhausted its financial resources,” Fortune Magazine quoted Hernando Montero Salazar, director of Credit Analyisis at Stoever Glass & Co., as saying. “That will leave them strictly with the options of the federal government to provide aid and restore infrastructure. That’s the only way Puerto Rico will be able to put themselves together.”

    For his part, Rodriguez argued that government mismanagement that has created so many problems for Puerto Rico is showing itself again as it attempts to deal with the devastation from the hurricane.

    “For instance, shortly after the hurricane hit, the government imposed a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am and then changed it,” Rodriguez said. “Now, it’s 7 pm to 5 am, and makes no sense. The curfew has prevented fuel trucks from transporting their loads.

    “These trucks should have been allowed to run for 24 hours to address our needs, but they have been stalled, and so we have massive lines at gas stations and severe shortages of diesel at our hospitals and supermarkets.”

    Rodriguez said it is the federal government that has put forth an organized response, and that it is wrong of Puerto Rico’s own political leaders to blame it.

    “I’m really tired of Puerto Rican government officials blaming the federal government for their woes and for not acting fast enough to help people on the island,” he said. “Last week I had three federal agents in my office and I was so embarrassed; I went out of my way to apologize to them for the attitude of my government and what they have been saying about the U.S. response.”

    The business leader said FEMA experts were present in no uncertain terms when Hurricane Maria hit the island.

    “I was really proud of their quick response,” he added. “The first responders and FEMA have all been outstanding in this crisis, and should be supported.”

    Rodriguez also had a word of caution for the U.S. Congress: “Watch out what relief funds you approve and let our local government handle. Don’t let the Puerto Rican government play the victim and fool you. They have no clue what they are doing, and I worry that they will mishandle anything that comes their way.”

    “They don’t need another aircraft carrier. They need experienced people to run a proper disaster command center.”

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    Nice of him to point out what has been obvious in recent days to anyone looking for the truth. Thank you, sir, thank you very very much for standing up and telling the world the truth about what is going on in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans must wise up and work hard to save their Island. The US will help but we're not going to do it all, we can't do it all and even if we could, why would we? We don't even do what you're demanding for our own states.
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    Report: Puerto Rico Teamsters Union, “Frente Amplio”, Refuse to Deliver Supplies – Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage…
    Posted on September 30, 2017 by sundance

    Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment: …

    They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed. “It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)

    The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space. CNBC ground report confirms Colonel Valle’s ground report. WATCH:at link .

    The reason for truck drivers not showing up? The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product. The older man in this video (below) is the boss of a very sketchy (corrupt and violent) Puerto Rico trucker’s union called Fente Amplio. The Union Leader’s name is Victor Rodriguez. The reporter is pleading with Rodriquez to set aside his political grievances with the Puerto Rican governor. Mr. Rodriquez (toothless) angrily shouts NO, and states the truck drivers have a right to be mad and will punish Puerto Rico to prove their union’s strength. Labor union head Victor Rodriquez is complaining about a law that the governor passed three weeks ago.

    The reporter CONFIRMS that the truck drivers are refusing to work in order to get revenge on the governor. Rodriguez says that the governor’s policies have impacted truckers, so now truckers will show the country THEIR OWN suffering.

    The reporters says, “But all this stuff is in the past. In the present, it’s an emergency.” Rodriguez guy says that the country can now experience what the truckers experience due to the governor’s policies. Rodriquez says the truckers are not responsible for helping the country. That’s the governor’s job.

    Three weeks earlier, nobody cared about the plight of the truckers, so now the truckers don’t care about the country. This is all the governor’s fault, Rodriguez says. He passed a law, and now he has to live with it. The governor didn’t understand the suffering of the working man, so now the truckers will show the country what suffering is. Since the country doesn’t care about truckers, the truckers won’t help.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...rotting-ports/
    Last edited by artist; 10-02-2017 at 12:54 PM.

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    Yeah, this has been known for awhile. It was mentioned a few days ago, but of course blaming the President was more popular with the CORRUPT MEDIA and the DemoQuacks.
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