San Juan’s mayor urged the United States to prioritise “people above debt” as it helps rebuild from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, after President Donald Trump said that the island’s crippling debt “must be dealt with.”
Maria slammed into the US territory of 3.4 million people last week as the most powerful hurricane to Puerto Rico in almost 90 years, destroying homes and infrastructure, including knocking out power across the island.
Puerto Rico, which has struggled for years economically, filed the biggest government bankruptcy in US history earlier this year.
“You don’t put debt above people, you put people above debt,” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz told CNN in an interview.
“There is a moral imperative … When someone …
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