Maria victims: Why aren't these names on Puerto Rico's list? - CNN
Clarence C. originally shared:
Their deaths were labeled “victim of cataclysmic storm”. So why aren’t their names on Puerto Rico's list?
Ramón Cruz Laboy, a 75-year-old who kept to himself and never wanted to burden his relatives died January 24 from medical complications that resulted from a femur fracture he suffered from a gust of wind from Hurricane Maria.
Reinaldo Ruiz Cintron, 59, who loved the ocean so much friends nicknamed him "Rey Bruquena," or "Rey Crab," died two months after a tree branch fell on him in October while he was cleaning up debris from that hurricane, which ravaged Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017.
Both men are labeled in a government database, obtained by CNN and the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI), as "victim of cataclysmic storm."
Yet neither man's name appears on Puerto Rico's list of 64 hurricane victims, which has been criticized by journalists and academics as grossly inaccurate.
”How could it be possible that (documents say) it was related to the hurricane and still the government did not count him in the 64?" said Lisa De Jesús, a friend of Ruiz who said she took him into her home because his house was so damaged in the storm. "It's obvious there were more than 64 deaths. If he was not counted, how many more were not counted?"
There is injustice even in death for these American citizens in Puerto Rico.
The government is in no hurry to make things right in Puerto Rico, but someone has to!
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/16/health/cataclysmic-storm-deaths-puerto-rico-maria-invs/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/16/health/cataclysmic-storm-deaths-puerto-rico-maria-invs/index.html
