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Nydia Velázquez: “For the first time I was able to go and see my family in Yabucoa, where the hurricane made landfall. It looked like…”

On the recordNovember 6, 2017
For the first time I was able to go and see my family in Yabucoa, where the hurricane made landfall. It looked like someone dropped a bomb.
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Nydia Velázquez
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Describing the devastation in Puerto Rico after the hurricane.

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