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Federal Aid is slow to come, organizations like PRxPR are continue to provide help and hope to the people of Puerto Rico. âThe most disadvantaged victims of Hurricane Maria are now the ones that are further suffering under the burden of politics,â Carmen Baez is quoted to say. âIf the federal aid
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Francisco Cerezo, an attorney and one of the founders of PRxPR, said "There is still a lot of need, But if there is one âsemi-silver lining,â it's that people have united to help.The diaspora always had many different kinds of divisions,â he continued. âThere are all kinds of
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Aguadilla airport, and when that plane lands, is that there's not enough personnel to help unload the plane," said PRxPR co-founder Carmen Baez,âThereâs not enough personnel to guard the merchandise, to load the trucks, to drive the trucks to where they're needed.â
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