Mayor outraged after DHS chief calls hurricane relief 'a good news story'

People line up an ATM to withdraw money in San Juan September 25.
Puerto Rico is in a desperate scramble for cash

The mayor of San Juan expressed her dismay after the Homeland Security chief called the federal government's Hurricane Maria response "a really good news story."

“Dammit, this is not a good news story,” Mayor Carmen Cruz said in an interview with CNN. “This is a people are dying story.”

Cruz was responding to acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke, who told reporters on Thursday, "I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane."

Cruz doesn't see it that way. She listed the crises Puerto Rico is facing: Babies need to be fed, people need to be saved from buildings, food is scarce on the streets, dialysis patients aren’t receiving their treatment and food shipments that sat undistributed at ports for days

the american elites...." never waste a good catastrophe.  its one of the best opportunities there is, to rape people and nations"