Cheez-It crackers. Beef jerky. Shelf-stable “tuna chunks, Kit-kat bars, Skittles, Crunch bars”
It may sound like the contents of a college vending machine, but these are actually among the foods that thousands of Puerto Ricans lived on for months.
Panned by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, the Federal Emergency Management Agency rations have been the subject of frequent criticism and social media rage since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in late September 2017.
In a public appearance, she rifled through a federal shipment of chocolate pudding and other snack foods before throwing the box aside as if disgusted. Continue Reading>>
