Right after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and the devastation that we saw, that many people claim is the worst ever under the American flag, it took such a long time for things to get going. And some of the excuses they were giving was that Puerto Rico was an island. And I sarcastically, or profoundly, said it was easy to invade it in 1898, so it was probably not difficult to reach it now.
Serrano highlighted the ease of access to Puerto Rico historically compared to the recent response challenges.
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