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National Guard to supply Puerto Rico islands with food, gas
AP ^ | 05 Mar 2019 | Danica Coto

Posted on 03/06/2019 1:42:48 AM PST by blueplum

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor activated the National Guard on Tuesday to rush food, medicine and gasoline to the popular tourist islands of Vieques and Culebra following a major breakdown in transportation that critics say could have been avoided. The announcement came after cargo ferries that supply the two islands located some 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Puerto Rico recently broke down, cutting an important lifeline to the roughly 11,000 people who live there...(snip)

...Just over five months ago, Rossello's administration rented four additional ferries and changed the departure point from Puerto Rico to the two islands as part of a multimillion-dollar project aimed at improving a troubled transportation system. The government is seeking to establish a public-private partnership to resolve issues.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; createddisasters; nationalguard; puertorico
seriously, can they screw up PR any worse? Since Congress is hot to trot to look at bank accounts, maybe they need to be looking at some in PR
1 posted on 03/06/2019 1:42:48 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

just lump PR into the pot of cities Dem controlled for your answer


2 posted on 03/06/2019 1:55:24 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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democratic thiefdoms creating yet another gangrenous rot from the cancer they are


3 posted on 03/06/2019 2:26:35 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: blueplum

Send them a few boxes of Beto’s Bean Burritos. Kill two birds with one stone.


4 posted on 03/06/2019 3:13:52 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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I would guess that somewhere on the island there is some entrepreneur who knows how to get things done. That person could go into politics and Make Puerto Rico Great For The First Time. But the people will only vote Democrat, so this isn’t going to happen.


5 posted on 03/06/2019 4:12:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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“The government is seeking to establish a public-private partnership to resolve issues.”

Should have been contracted out all along. Transportation systems require common sense budgeting and dispersal priorities and government can’t do that, they have no concept of it.


6 posted on 03/06/2019 5:05:26 AM PST by Openurmind
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puerto ricans continue their parasitic ways. These ingrates need to be thrown out and have their independence with no foreign aid given to them. Sink or swim, you socialist LIB nitwits.


7 posted on 03/06/2019 5:42:36 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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So why hasn’t the nasty woman saved them?


8 posted on 03/06/2019 6:41:37 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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Can’t we just give Puerto Rico to Mexico?


9 posted on 03/06/2019 7:10:58 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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Cuba would be better suited.


10 posted on 03/06/2019 9:53:59 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: hal ogen

Well they’re all here on the mainland now Jim.


11 posted on 03/06/2019 9:54:44 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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