Many demonstrators in Puerto Rico are still disgusted by what they view as the government’s deeply inadequate response to Hurricane Maria.
A year after the hurricane, Yamary Morales Torres was rebuilding her mother’s home on the waterfront in Yabucoa. The house next door, foreground, which belonged to her brother, was left with only three walls standing. “The words felt like a deep cut,” said Jesiely Martinez, a 38-year-old computer engineer, who protested with hundreds of thousands of other people in the streets of San Juan — leaving the governor little choice but to resign, as he did last week.
For Nilsa Fuentes, 51, who also joined the massive protests, the joke about hurricane victims was unforgivable. The dead and their survivors deserve better, she said. About an hour east in Canovanas, along a street that snakes up a steep hill, Antonio Castro Villanueva walked around his sparse, two-room home made of concrete. He pointed to a two-foot crack and nodded.“From the storm,” said Castro, a 62-year-old artist, who chisels petroglyphs to honor thethe indigenous people of the Caribbean. On a recent morning, he picked a handful of leaves from a small shrub in his yard and held them up to the sky and then down to the ground.
Ayala, 66, recalled that when she finally walked outside after the storm everything was brown. The wind had sucked leaves from the trees, and a layer of mud was caked everywhere. With another hurricane season now underway, she constantly checks the weather. When weather forecasters mention a storm, she panics and prays.
Ayala scoffed at the mention of FEMA, saying the agency’s response, at least in her neighborhood, was too slow and too small. “The first help we got was from Ricky Martin,” she said, noting that the Puerto Rican pop star was one of many people who flocked to her town to offer help.who spent the days after the storm asking God to send her the name ofLoiza popped into her mind. When she arrived and asked people what they needed most, they told her Clorox, coffee and camping stoves.“I was furious.
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