Their own hands
Puerto Ricans reach for supplies in the southern city of
Ponce on Jan. 18, after people broke into a warehouse and
began handing out water bottles, cots, baby food and other
unused resources that had apparently been waiting there,
undistributed, since Hurricane Maria struck the island in- Coming after a powerful Jan. 7 earthquake caused
widespread damage—and led President Trump, more
than a week later, to declare a major emergency there—
the discovery of the stranded supplies sparked protests
over the mishandling of aid for the U.S. territory.
Photograph by Ricardo Arduengo—AFP/Getty Images
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