San Juan’s mayor railed against President Trump’s acting DHS Secretary for expressing optimism about the progress the US has made in their relief efforts for residents of Puerto Rico. San Juan’s mayor, Carmin Yulin Cruz, used CNN as a vehicle to criticize the efforts of the US in getting much-needed supplies to the residents of San Juan. Only hours after the mayor of San Juan criticized the efforts of the Trump administration, tweets from the Mayor of San Juan, (that were sent out before Hurricane Maria) surfaced on Twitter responding to Hillary’s tweet, as she trashed President Trump, saying he “doesn’t deserve to be President.”

Now, the truth about why those thousands of containers filled with supplies are allegedly not getting to the citizens is revealed, and the truth is, it has nothing to do with President Trump or our DHS…

Conservative Treehouse – Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:

…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.

Col. Valle is a firsthand witness of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) response supporting FEMA in Puerto Rico, and as a Puerto Rican himself with family members living in the devastation, his passion for the people is second to none. “It’s just not true,” Col. Valle says of the major disconnect today between the perception of a lack of response from Washington verses what is really going on on the ground. “I have family here. My parents’ home is here. My uncles, aunts, cousins, are all here. As a Puerto Rican, I can tell you that the problem has nothing to do with the U.S. military, FEMA, or the DoD.”

“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)

Colonel Valle blames the conditions of the roads for the lack of truck drivers to move supplies around Puerto Rico, but the video below tells another story.

The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more in the available space. CNBC ground report confirms Colonel Valle’s ground report. WATCH:

https://youtu.be/f4Z01o4tBlI

The reason for truck drivers not showing up? The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product.

Thomas Wictor shared a video of an interview between a man (he calls ‘the toothless guy”) and a reporter. Wictor translates their conversation in several tweets that are found below the video: 

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914296724822179840

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914299636029972490

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914299423076655104

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914299277505060864

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914299179488313344

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914298574904582145

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914298342330343425

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914298195504635905

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914297660600860672

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914297449904144385

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914297040066166785

https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/914296887489867778

 

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