BONUS: Puerto Rico After the Storm

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In The Thick brings you a special bonus episode from our sister podcast, Latino USA, checking in on Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. In The Thick co-host Julio Ricardo Varela has been intensely reporting on the hurricane, so he sat down with co-host Maria Hinojosa to dispel some myths about what's happening on the island today. We hear from the First Lady of Puerto Rico, Beatriz Roselló, about her take on the devastation. And we get a sense of what Puerto Rico feels like now from Latino USA producer Andrés Caballero, who is on the ground reporting. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Noam, producer here at The Thick.
0:03.0	This week our sister podcast, Latino USA,
0:05.2	dropped a special podcast episode
0:07.1	about the ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico,
0:09.5	and we wanted to share that episode
0:11.0	with our In The Thick listeners too. You can find more
0:13.7	LatinoUSA episodes in Apple Podcasts or at LatinoUSA.org. Okay here's the
0:18.9	episode. Hey so this is Julio I going to keep trying to call my cousin.
0:24.0	The centimos, the state has obtained a number that is
0:31.0	that is temporally disconnected. This is a unousio gravado. I'm supposed to call him to get an unquote
0:35.0	I'm supposed to call him to get an update
0:38.0	because he sent me a couple of texts and I've been unable to reach him
0:42.0	even though he told me his landline was working.
0:44.7	We are sorry, the number you have reached is temporarily disconnected.
0:49.2	This is a recording. I'm Maria Inujosa and welcome to a Latino USA podcast special about the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and its effects on Puerto Rico.
1:10.0	We've asked Latino USA Digital Director and my co-host for our political
1:14.2	podcast in the thick, Julio Ricardo Barrela, to join me in the studio. Hey Julio.
1:18.9	Hey, Maria. So Julio, one of the stories that you've been following and one that is just very painful to hear is the conflicting reports about the death toll and very upsetting, but what can you update us on this?
1:32.0	Okay, so the government's official numbers for over a week.
1:35.2	They've been saying this for over a week was that 16 people had died.
1:38.2	16 people certified.
1:42.1	There's no way that the death toll here in Puerto Rico could be 16.
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