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| Puerto Rico's emergency services director fired after warehouse discovered with supplies from Hurricane Maria |
| 2020-01-19 |
| [ABCNEWS.GO] Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez dismissed the island's director of emergency management after a warehouse was discovered with supplies dating back to Hurricane Maria. Video published Saturday showed a warehouse in the southwestern city of Ponce filled with supplies, including thousands of cases of water, believed to have been from when the hurricane struck the island in 2017. Hurricane Maria left 2,975 people dead and caused major problems in Puerto Rico for months, including power outages and shortages of food, water and medicine. "There are thousands of people who have made sacrifices to bring help to the south, and it is unforgivable that resources have been kept in a warehouse," Vazquez said in a statement. The governor gave officials 48 hours to investigate why the supplies never were delivered to those who needed them. Vazquez nominated the head of the Puerto Rican National Guard, Brig. Gen. Victor S. Perez, to lead the Office of Emergency Management after Carlos Acevedo's dismissal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Why yes, Bobby. He did and he was. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-01-19 17:25 |
| #9 Didn't our current POTUS make some remark about aid sitting in warehouses several years ago, for which he was roundly humiliated? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-01-19 17:09 |
| #8 Bush's fault. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2020-01-19 17:03 |
| #7 Didn't split the take with upstairs? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-01-19 14:00 |
| #6 "Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez dismissed the island's director of emergency management" Never mind "dismissed," seems to me the "director" should also be in JAIL. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2020-01-19 13:44 |
| #5 Seems like the Toldja So graphic would fit this article. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-01-19 12:56 |
| #4 Quake damaged it and they looked inside... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-19 12:29 |
| #3 It was probably the idea that they (I'm including good Ms. Wanda here) could hand out the goods directly and say to the residents that the PR government was the one helping them, not the 'Northerners'. That way their narrative about the 'state's largess' stays consistent. Sort of how Hamas does with the rest of the world's funding on the 'strip'. Or the Mafia. Possibly a subsequent need for the warehouse came up and someone told the press what they found without checking in with the EM director first. So they got caught, and the upper levels are trying to spin this into a 'Wuzn't Us' scenario. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-01-19 12:19 |
| #2 In a place where incompetence and corruption run neck and neck it's probably not possible to get to the bottom of this. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-19 09:55 |
| #1 When I was an 18-year-old freshman in college, I was taught the 3 duties of management were "Policies, Procedures, and Internal Controls." If you're managing anything larger than a lemonade stand and you don't understand the importance of internal controls, you're by definition a bad manager. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2020-01-19 03:59 |