Puerto Rico's Poorest Residents Are Still Suffering
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- People living in the poorest communities said it’s been weeks since the government distributed large portions of aid.
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God bless Puerto Rico 🇵🇷!!
Puerto Rico is a beautiful island. It will survive but it will take time to recuperate.
@Corbin Carter dude can you not no one cares
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God bless the people in Puerto Rico with everything they need!
I can send soaps from Trinidad / Tobago clothes contact me someone I will post ot
Like millions of bottles of water they just let sit for a year?
Thank you
I’m not religious but I really appreciate it😊 thanks from PR
Nah god can’t do anything people need to help them
Honey the poor always are the longest to suffer in every nation third world or so called developed. We always get the scraps from the bread of the rich
YOU FREELOADER YOLERO FROM DOM REP QUEEN ON ALIEN PARASITES SUPPORTED BY FOOD STAMPS AND WELFARE GET THE SCRAPS FORM THE PUERTO RICANS WHEN YOU GET TO THE ISLAND DIRTY, HUNGRY AND WITH NO MONEY TO BE A PUBLIC BURDEN.
@@Edlas22158 man you sound like a disgrace to wence you came
Jack Daniels-Son We, people from DR, leader of freeloaders in the USA get to PR with a stunted mind from the high seas trip, hunger and stench of sweat, dirt, feces with no suitcase, no money or dignity to get scraps and be a public burden . Then to the USA where we were crowned kings of parasites. _New York- Almost all Dominican aliens have been living in the USA as a public burden for decades._ According to the statistics of the USA census, it is one of the migratory groups most dependent on food stamps, section 8, medical services, transportation and all government aids paid by USA taxpayers. Just in the Bronx there are more than 200,000 Dominicans almost all to them depending on welfare benefits. _*New York Post-The Federal Government found a scam for more than $60 millions, of dominicans depending on welfare that ended on Dom Republic banks*_. *Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. yesterday called food-stamp fraud scheme ... on their EBT cards then shipping them to the Dominican Republic to be sold. ... money is being used to make a profit in other countries is a slap in our face.* ON TOP OF THAT WE ARE CALLED THE BROTHEL OF THE CARIBBEAN BY ALL AGENCIES WHO VISIT OUR COUNTRY TO INVESTIGATE PROSTITUTION OF MINORS
@@andith yeah for both of us the situations are terrible we must do something one day
The truth about this whole situation that the ones that helped the most were the neighbors people in the community and even celebrities of Puerto Rican descent. The community did shit to help out our beautiful island and it’s such a shame 😔 After the hurricane in December I flew out and it was so heart wrenching seeing the place that you loved and adored now look so sad and distraught. Something the government can’t kill thou is the spirit of the people 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 Que Viva Puerto Rico 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Yeah but that spirit is retarded. Because all they do is say how great they are. But spend their time constantly begging for help. Then they say how great they are. Then beg for more help.
@Lizania Rodriguez puerto ricans always beg for help. Thats why theyre part of the US
@@ThePresentation010 Puerto Rico is part of the US because the US declared war on Spain way back in 1898 (Spanish American war)stole it and imposed American citizenship in 1917,the year US entered World War 1 and drafted thousands of young men (as young as18) that had to go fight& die in Europe. US gets billions from having PR. They wouldn't be there if they weren't benefitting in addition to it's strategic military, commercial, etc. location.
@Lizania Rodriguez we are all American , you just have your culture . Dont play that card , my wife is puerto Rican and we live here now and before maria. The Government including loudmouth miss nasty , well kinda hard to dispute you dont have supplys in front of a collesium full of supplys .
The mayor of Arecibo Carlos molina held supplys for his constituents we see both before and after the huracane the mismanagement of INTERNAL government from the governor on down . Time to drain the swamp here and get rid of those that dont care about everyone
@Lizania Rodriguez racist , i guess being married to a puerto Rican woman is oh so racist . That is the definition of your hate .
18,500 pallets of water found on abandon airstrip in ceiba
I love puerto ricans God bless Puerto rico and it's people❤
😢 I never wanted to leave the most beautiful place in the world to me . 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
my poor babies🇵🇷❤️ Stay strong
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It’s sad our island is still in shambles i wish i had all the money in the world to help my people ☹️ Puerto Rico se llevanta 🙏🏻 Dios proteja a Mi Pueblo
Beautiful people being treated unfairly by the system.
This made me so sad I haven't shed a genuine tear in a while... This ain't right... I wish I could help and support everyone on the island. This is overwhelming.
As African American i care for my brothers in pr same with Haiti Jamaica wish them the best
♥️🙏🏽
no coincidence that the poorest people in the latin american countries tend to be darker ones.. so much for the melting pot
They don't give a damn about you
@@pbennett13 Most Puerto Rican’s are not dark. Most of these people in the video were from the Dominican Republic as illegal Haitians.
@@espanaeslamadrepatria4042 How do you know they are dominicans and not haitians?
The woman in the beginning had me in tears
i love Puerto rico!!Theres some the most beautiful women from there!!!
Es cierto
wanna cry…my heart is bleeding, tearing apart. so sad to see them suffering and weeping. Puerto Ricans are very strong, very beautiful people. Luv their music, culture, language and everything.😭bless them
I hope one day soon the people who left Puerto Rico will return stronger and better. I remember how my father hated to leave his island to come to the U.S to work , he always wanted to return and be buried there,unfortunately he became too ill to return and passed away 🇵🇷❤
Give Puerto Rico it’s independence!
No we don't want independence, common wealth or statehood.
Independence Please. PUERTO RICO LIBRE 🇵🇷💪✊
@@eddiesaninocencio6635 Speak for yourself, white boy wanna be.
A lot of us think of you here in the States. You have our prayers and hope and love
Thank you! I really want to visit the place of Puerto Rico
They need to get together and help each other rebuild do whatever you can as a community to help rebuild.... don't depend on the government they are all sneaky and is the reason why you guys are living this way.
Easier said then done when you have no funds to rebuild. It takes a lot of money to do that, and when you lose everything you owned it becomes impossible to rebuild a community. By the way, all 50 states and its territories have to depend on the government at some point.
My family lives in Puerto Rico 😢😢
We as American citizens should be able to organize help others WITHOUT the government.
True. When Hurricane Camille demolished the Mississippi coast (1969), the people just dug in, and got to work. One guy said, "We have a beautiful country here, and we'll make it beautiful again." (See the documentary, "A Lady Called Camille.")
And your people should have stayed in their county instead of getting to the sea to be an extra burden on the island since all get there with empty pockets to drain the government resources by being supported by it.
@@Edlas22158 You have to understand that this was done on purpose by the US government. Puerto Rico was given food stamps & welfare back in the 50s & 60s I believe and my grandfather said, "this is bad!" Simply bc he knew this would make people dependant, lazy & entitled. It's just common sense. My people have no choice now but to create for themselves bc Trump & the Governor & Mayor's of Puerto Rico will not do anything for them but wait until Puerto Ricans either leave or die where they are & eventually the wealthy will continue to take over the island! This is what it is.
@@BreuckelensFinest *FREELOADER ALIEN FROM DOM REP YOU ARE THE VERMIN TO THE ISLAND AND USA WHO ARRIVE WITH EMPTY POCKETS AND STOMACH TO LIVE AT TAX PAYERS EXPENSES. THEN GET CONSUMED BY INFERIORITY COMPLEXES FOR BEING A BURDEN TO THE ISLAND AND TO USA who end up FEEDING YOUR HUNGRY FOREIGN COUNTRY RD WITH THE USA FOOD STAMPS , PAID IN PART BY PUERTO RICANS. . READ AND LEARN The Commonwealth government has its own tax laws and Puerto Ricans are also required to pay some US federal taxes, although most residents do not have to pay the federal personal income tax.[10] In 2016, Puerto Rico paid $3.5 billion into the US Treasury.[11] Residents of Puerto Rico pay into Social Security, and are thus eligible for Social Security benefits upon retirement. However, they are excluded from the Supplemental Security Income.
ACCORDINNG TO QUARTZ PUERTO RICO AND OTHER MEANS PUERTO RICO PAYS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FEDERAL TAXES. That’s more than $20 billion channeled to the same coffers that keep the Trump administration running, just $2 billion shy of what the state of Vermont contributed in taxes during the same period. HOW MUCH DOES YOUR COUNTRY PAY FOR YOUR PEOPLE BEING A BURDEN TO THIS COUNTRY and to the island?*
Oh we had forgotten to say, that running after the food stamps that Puerto Rico pays for, and share with your hungry people is why they risk their lives in the ocean to get to the honey bee that is the island for them. And we did not know, we just found out that the news that we heard a long time ago of a woman feeding breast milk to stop the men from being dehydrated was a Dominican trying to get to the island. hAHAHAHA, sure that as soon as they got to the island went to the social services office to get help, the same way that they fill the school cafeterias, jails, schools etc, etc. Then why not to analyze the situation, go to a Therapist Office to release your complexes before going to every PR video to release them? Why not to realize that the island has done nothing but instead of stepping on your peoples' fingers to let them fall when they grab to the island, they bend down to help and be grateful for DR no being like Haiti thanks to the island?
@@Edlas22158 you realize Puerto Rico is part of the US right...
Prayers for Puerto Rico😢😢
I'm so sorry praying for you all.
This makes me sad no one should have to suffer when there is enough money to fix the problems in Puerto Rico
@Reverie Marie, you must be Puerto Rician always wanting others money to fix your problems.
Dios bendiga muchísimo al bello país puertorriqueño y a todos mis puertorriqueños bellos y queridos, yo se que mis compatriotas muchas veces son muy malos agradecidos, pero yo tengo que agradecerle muchísimo a ese bellísimo país llamado Puerto Rico, han ayudado demasiado a mi gente dominicana, Dios te me bendiga muchísimo Puerto Rico bello tesoro del Caribe de parte de un dominicano que te ama Puerto Rico bellísimo y encantador
💗😉
PR is not a country
Stay strong,god bless you all
God bless you Puerto Rico! I love you
Why is it a coincidence that most of the poorest Puerto Ricans are brown or black ? Watching from London UK.
I read somewhere they had containers of supplies that got to a location maybe customs and never got delivered and all went bad
When America Empire falls in 40 to 50 years from now Puerto Rico must prepare to be a self relied Country and not relie to much into the United States money and ends it's government corruption in the Island
Coming from A DomiRican 🇵🇷❤🇩🇴
America is gonna collapse B 4 long,, then who R foreigners gonna leech off of ??????
Amen🙏love from India 🇮🇳
As a Puerto Rican I feel bad for my people on the island it is a very beautiful island with interesting culture but yet my people still suffer
So what in the hell are we doing to help Puerto Rico? I mean damn. We’re supposed to be the U.S.
Our administration is pura mierda! They're waiting for most to leave and / or sell out their properties. It's called Crisis Capitalism.
Vincent Santiago It's easier to blame FEMA than to call out the corrupt mayors on PR.
Welcome to the FASCIST STATES OF WALL STREET BANKERS (USA)
Vincent Santiago
It’s their own government that is doing this. They’re getting the supplies but their government/mayors are not distributing it as they said would.
I have seen this with my own eyes.
How many millions are spent in MiddleEast? How many many million sent through Marco Rubio and UsAid to Venezuela oposition to FIX Venezuela but they can't fix Puerto Rico?
PUERTO Rican no need us please go welfare baster
Venezuela have money PUERTO RICO have welfare
Laura Cortez
And $$$ WASTED on ENDLESS WARS, SOON “ SPACE WARS”, WEALTHY people & Big Corporations TAX CUTS/WELFARE? How Much $$$ have Trump Family Stolen!
Many Puerto Rican’s SERVED IN USA 🇺🇸 Military!
Tell that to the austerity program imposed by Washington!
So sad
Second class citizens... its a shame !!!!
My brothers and sisters we been forgotten, but at the end of the ally is hope. We have the weapons in our hands-which is our mouse. Don't count on (---) to solve our problems, they are not after us. Let gather together so our voices could be hear. I am with all us you.
Viva 🇵🇷 PUERTO RICO
All the mayors are corrupt and only give out stuff when it's a photo shoot.sad this is going on .we are all people that only get to go around this planet once.americans would be yelling they want the shit cleaned up working.blessings if you could get me a pen pal from there .would like to hear some more and maybe i could send something useful or maybe hard to get or needed item.sorry i just saw this post.if they are still messed up.
I was there last june couldnt believe they were still shutting off water and electricity. While the government was living in wealth made me upset. Visiting family. Asked them who resp8nsible for not fixing. Problems they blamed their government. Then all. Hell broke loose with their govenor. After we left. Was sad to see what was going on
And what’s amazing is how beautiful that first drone footage was but yet deep down inside this beautiful island people are suffering 💙🙏🏽 one of the most beautiful places in the world and yet people still suffer, are hungry, don’t have running water, their starving, education is not that well either. After all these horrible things, I still want to move there, hopefully one day be able to retire there and be buried there with my grandparents
US: Bbbbuuuut Venezuela is... Starving!
I love puertorico its where I'm from I wish I was there to help with reconstruction I miss our home LA Isla del encanto
I pray they get the resources they need soon!
All poor people suffer in the word .
the strange thing is that the poverty stricken area's in the untold states are appalling and just as bad
No one forgotten, corruptions and crime driving busisness and jobs away,who wants to live in an infested crime island please tell the story right. Crime and corruptions
this broke my heart to watch
This is just plain sad and inexcusable.
PUERTO RICO WAS DIRT POOR PRIOR TO MARIA...MANY PUERTO RICANS ARE DEPENDENT ON WELFARE, WHEN I WAS A KID IN 1954--65 EVERYONE WORKED ON THE FARMS , BUT TODAY THEY ARE WAY TOO MANY LAZY YOUNG PR DEPENDENT ON WELFARE...IF YOU KEEP FEEDING AN ANIMAL ? THEY WILL BECOME DEPENDENT ON YOU FEEDING THEM...PR DO NOT WANT TO WORK ON THE FARMS ANYMORE, LAZINESS..A FEW STILL WORK ON THE FARMS TO BE HONEST..
Exactly they want to live of of others instead of working for it
To anyone who reads this call your congressman because it's still happening. The current administration is still holding funds up to provide housing repairs for all of these people still affected.
After the hurricane, one of the mayors (of a poor town I think) was crying while asking for help for the people
If each community to help each other and rebuild there community trade for trade learn to unite and make it happen. In this world you must learn to take care of your own. No one will do it for you. the rich get richer the poor must unit to become strong.
When I was there visiting family , there were places we couldn’t get to because of damage. And road blocks fro trees and debris.
God damn this shit is tough
God bless this world.💕❤️🇺🇸
And the americans complain here for mask issues.... are you kidding me? They will never experience hardship like this
The Puertorrican people are american citizen. Same the people of the State. But the Puertorrican people ( american citizen ) have not right to vote and representation in the congress with vote in the USA congress. WHAT DEMOCRACY IS THAT?
Its a commanwealth no?
@@TheCompton1963 so basically, a colony of the us?
How can U.S. citizens be allowed to live that way?!?
drop d and Love Always, read up about Puerto Rico on wikipedia please they do not vote in the USA as most are not US citizens and their own government is clearly stealing from them.
Meanwhile here in 2020 wear houses full of provisions rotting away! Corruption
Some people, ( ignorant people ) had the audacity to blame the President of the USA for not giving enough help to the Island of Puerto Rico. But, there were videos that show that in the Metropolitan Area boxes of food and other items were being dumped in the garbage cans. That the Mayors responsible to manage all support from different agencies, to make sure that those people living in the rural areas receive the same amount of help the city people got did not do their job. They spent their time criticizing the President of the USA when every Puerto Rican knows that we are a Commonwealth and as such should be capable enough to deal with a Hurricane specially when all kinds of help and privileged were being handle to the Island. Do you want to blame someone? Blame the Politicians that are running our Island of Puerto Rico and are forever defending our independence, until of course a Mojon gets stuck in our asses, then they start looking for scapegoats to carry our sins out of town with them. Our Puerto Ricans politicians have for many decades gotten away with all kinds of corruption and they are still playing the same old games as to whether the people of the Island prefer the State hood or independence from USA which no one wants, so the only alternative is to stay the same as always a Commonwealth. Too many crooks wants the Island to stay in their hands of power, so they can determine what is best for the people of the Island which of course it's what ever will fill their pockets with money.
Es horrible son seres humanos no importa deben ser ayudado... 😫😭
The real problem instead of buying concrete blocks little by little until reach the finish line they kept buying and constructing on wood. In a well known hurricane zone.
From others videos I have also watched of the aftermath since, show many buildings of cinder or solid concrete in need of repair, to assume its all wood structures is a self pity to yourself to be so arrogant about it.
Dios mio que pena Me da ver A miisgla sufrir Así de esa manera
Why aren’t we helping them this is fucking crazy
I think Puerto Rico should become a state.
Corruption people with big power don't delivere food for them where is all the $$$So Sad.
God is great he will provide.
It just isn't right for these beautiful people to be treated this way. Where did the money go that was donated to help.
Its a real shame
Not all governments are looking out for the best interests of their citizens. In fact, many countries have been caught up in political scandals and corruption. Some have even had such a history of corruption, that it has caused political unrest against its citizens.
This is not right! Puerto Ricans are being forgotten. This island is gorgeous and the people are as well. So much was raised in major cities Across America including my city to give to Puerto Ricans after the hurricane was gone. To me this shows that all the aid clothing, and food was never given to the Puerto Rican people.
Remember you are indigenous people if South America and Caribbean islands there are grant for native peoples
I am so sorry for these people these are the real Puerto Rican not like the dill weed ones that come to America and fleece the Government system. If I were rich enough I would rebuild the entire island
Puerto Ricans out here STAY STRONG 💪 LOVE YALL.. IM IN MASSACHUSSETTES LAWTOWN🔥🔥
i would like to help the young lady do you have her contact information
I got her covered,, get lost
Am Mexican and two of my best friends are boricuas
Puerto rico a living hell
Necesitamos ayudar Puerto Rico sin la asistencia de el gobierno
We are American
From my understanding, “which may not be accurate” wasn’t there a huge factory with all fema products stored in a huge warehouse that the Puerto Rican government held onto ? And now that governor had to resign because of this ? Any fellow Puerto Rican’s out there from the island have anything on this ??
This is an outrage.They should not be forgotten.Too close to be ignored.There is still trials and delemas.Its unreal.We are all humans,Come on...
Why am I so certain that those "Mexicans" commenting negative things about Puerto Ricans are actually Dominicans?..
1. Grammar 2. Mexico and Puerto Rico were in solidarity after both countries suffered catastrophes a week apart.
Puerto Rico has always loved, respected and looked up to the U.S.A. Please Help us U.S.A, since WWII we have bled with you as solders we believe in you Please believe in us.
It's truly unfortunate you guys have Trump as a leader.. If this storm had happened during the Obama administration, I definitely believe you guys would've received adequate aid and help by now.
Since WW1, in 1917 when the USA impose the US citizenship to puertoricans.
GOD HELP ,
@CARLOS RIVERA, Stop do not use service as an excuse, did you serve?????. Every person who have served in the US military was compensated equally Black, White, Native, Filipino, South American, African, Muslims, Jews or Christians all joined and served of their own free will, the pay is equal and the benefits also.
@ESCOEXCLUSIVE, ha ha ha ha God destroyed your island the USA didn't.
My childhood was beautiful. Beautiful sun, ocean, waves and country landscape. Throughout my years growing up in PR Ive learned that most of the people over there DO NOT WANT TO WORK! The generation that did work died a long time ago. No workers, no jobs. Now with this hurricane Puerto Rico's future looks even more darker and grim. My country is losing and it hurts my heart because there's nothing that can be done. Not even the US can help at this point. It's all up to my people.
That is sad... when all said is done and you rest your head st night, know only you can help yourself, everyone is answers lie within... you'll never find it and that's the beauty Is the ride, the anticipation, just as a knife never cuts itself and a fire never burns itself, we are not able to fathom our own essence.
Come on man dont throw our people under the bus like that whats wrong with you?
Listen up White boy wanna be. The U.S. is the fucking us up over and over. Is people with your mentally that talk and talk but does nothing for Puerto Rico. There is lots of hard working people here on the island including myself so don't talk in general. You enjoyed your childhood here on the island but your love for the island never grew in you. If you have never done anything for the island to make it better you really in to just keep quite and be ashame for speaking so negative about the island without putting the real facts as in why. Vende Patria....
@@wolfheart2443 Look I plan on going back to the island despite the fact I never grew up or was born there its where im from so imma go back and help and live there im of the new generation and I care about this shit but many of us need to come back and help it.
@@yeetersnitzel6351 Agree 💪🇵🇷
Unfortunately this is just a taste of what life is like in the third world, Puerto Rico is the most developed country in Latin America, they not even struggling that bad. So imagine all the pain and suffering we endure in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Brazil, Cuba, places that don’t get a spotlight from America
This is just the beginning, the people are on their own. Don't expect the government to help. Just look at all the peopleibing in FEMA centers in the US
Almost 400 comments... I wonder how many of them sent aid or helped out in anyway rather then words...
I did and still do to family...
Why send aid when someone else steals it
Get them food water , and shelter
Fema says it's got records showing that the the shipment is getting there but the prolle say no.... thank god we got ricky to resign because it's clear the people are not being taken care of. Bendicion pa la Isla del encanto!
Ppl who give there last to help others
Yeah but I heard that the mayor was taking the goods for themselves, so please find out if it's true... This is my island and it hurts my soul to watch my people suffer
What they need to do is erase all these crooked politician in Puerto Rico
Do Americans look at this and applaud their self?
I stayed two weeks in Puerto Rico before the hurricane and it's always been a nasty place so they can say whatever they want and Trump sent all kinds of supplies and the dirty insane Democrats hit it and try to say that Trump didn't help but he did and now that we know that can we edit this video!!!!
I hurt for my people. I too am struggling here en el estados unidos. Like the Prophet Job said; "He slays me but I worship him." We need your mercy and guidance to help us throw off the shackles of Romanized Colonialism and learn Emet/truth to keep your commandments....
may GOD help them and bless them with all things needed.. in the might name of YAHSHUA..AMUN
No way there'd not be rebuilding done with all of those 2 x 4s, cinder blocks, etc., just laying around. And the debris around the children? Why doesn't the community spend their time moving it elsewhere --- burning off what can't be used - - making use of all that can be made use of. This makes no sense. I watched videos of cities in Germany destroyed after WW II where men, women, and even children were rebuilding and cleaning up.