sgip
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As to the numbers question - at least it wasn't the 4,600 the New England Journal of Medicine guesstimated back in July.... Yes, this is sarcasm. The numbers vary from an official toll of hundreds to practically "sky's the limit" - depending on your agenda.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972?query=featured_home
As to the whom is at fault question - Anyone who has been to PR (as I have) can see it's for all intents and purposes "La Isla de Tijuana" with a few scattered 5 star resorts to hide away from the surrounding squalor. So that I'm not displaying right wing bias, here's an article from Mother Jones, as far Left as you might find as a news resource. Note how the Governor (D-Kleptocrat) wants a plan to fix their electrical grid that is opposed by the fiscal control board required to help govern the island after their bankruptcy. Perhaps the graft wasn't going to be sufficient enough to warrant going forward on a plan that might really help the islands people.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/ricardo-rossello-rob-bishop/
It seems best IMHO to either wipe out the local government and completely Federalize the territory, or cut it loose to straighten itself out. Neither are great options, but status quo on the island gave us the 6, 18, 64, 1,400, or 2,975 deaths that could have been prevented with proper leadership.
My .02c
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972?query=featured_home
As to the whom is at fault question - Anyone who has been to PR (as I have) can see it's for all intents and purposes "La Isla de Tijuana" with a few scattered 5 star resorts to hide away from the surrounding squalor. So that I'm not displaying right wing bias, here's an article from Mother Jones, as far Left as you might find as a news resource. Note how the Governor (D-Kleptocrat) wants a plan to fix their electrical grid that is opposed by the fiscal control board required to help govern the island after their bankruptcy. Perhaps the graft wasn't going to be sufficient enough to warrant going forward on a plan that might really help the islands people.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/ricardo-rossello-rob-bishop/
It seems best IMHO to either wipe out the local government and completely Federalize the territory, or cut it loose to straighten itself out. Neither are great options, but status quo on the island gave us the 6, 18, 64, 1,400, or 2,975 deaths that could have been prevented with proper leadership.
My .02c