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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia: “There are more tarps than I wanted to count. I went to Ponce with the mayor, I visited San Juan, and I just was stunned…”

On the recordMarch 25, 2019
There are more tarps than I wanted to count. I went to Ponce with the mayor, I visited San Juan, and I just was stunned at the lack of response.
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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia
Democratic · Texas

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Garcia describes her firsthand observations of the disaster response in Puerto Rico.

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