Maria recovery efforts need Congressional help

Senate Democrats write to GOP leadership asking help for Puerto Rico disaster relief: https://t.co/Z1MUQstZJT

— Puerto Rico Report (@PRicoReport) September 27, 2017

Democrats in Congress are trying to get Republicans to help Puerto Rico.

People in need of water and food

This image traveled the world. It shows the needs of hundreds of communities that we are reaching. Puerto Rico will recover and rebuild. pic.twitter.com/JzWy8ItMIw

— Ricardo Rossello (@ricardorossello) September 27, 2017

This picture went viral after people turned to the streets to post messages asking for help due to the lack of water and food.

Aid stuck in ports

Maddening.
3,000 shipping containers packed with food water & medicene have been sitting at the port in Puerto Rico since Saturday pic.twitter.com/LJ0ETpmnOf

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) September 27, 2017

Despite the outpouring of support, much of the aid sent to Puerto Rico did not make it to the hands of those in need. Thousands of containers were stuck in ports due to a lack of trucks and drivers to transport them across the US territory.

Central mountainous region of Puerto Rico severely devastated

“We are rationing the food”: the humanitarian crisis devastates isolated communities in the mountainous rural region|https://t.co/u2VnQmTVYL pic.twitter.com/iKTpSWC1qJ

— Centro de Periodismo (@cpipr) September 27, 2017

While all of Puerto Rico experienced the effects of Hurricane Maria, the central mountainous region was especially battered.

Donald Trump attacks San Juan Mayor

The Trump-Yulin spat succinctly encapsulates the colonial dilemma of #PuertoRico. https://t.co/PeMNWREWZ3 pic.twitter.com/FIpSJbpxdA

— Pasquines (@Pasquines_US) October 1, 2017

The President of the United States took to Twitter to attack San Juan’s Mayor, Carmen Yulin (PDP), after she was on tv asking for more help, and condemning a slow, structurally inefficient federal response.