Washington, DC \u2013 Los senadores de Oreg\u00f3n Jeff Merkley y Ron Wyden, junto con 13 de sus colegas del Senado y 116 de sus colegas de la C\u00e1mara, enviaron hoy una carta al presidente Trump denunciando sus recientes declaraciones sobre las muertes en Puerto Rico por los huracanes Irma y Mar\u00eda y sus secuelas. <\/p>\n
La carta de los legisladores, que llega casi un a\u00f1o despu\u00e9s de que el hurac\u00e1n Mar\u00eda toc\u00f3 tierra en Puerto Rico y las Islas V\u00edrgenes de EE. UU., pide al presidente Trump que se disculpe de inmediato y aclare las cosas al reconocer p\u00fablicamente el n\u00famero oficial de muertos. La carta fue encabezada por la Senadora de los Estados Unidos Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) y la Representante Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez (DN.Y.).<\/p>\n
El n\u00famero oficial de muertos en Puerto Rico actualmente es de 2975 y se basa en un estudio de meses de duraci\u00f3n encargado por el Gobierno de Puerto Rico y realizado por investigadores de la Escuela de Salud P\u00fablica del Instituto Milken de la Universidad George Washington. Esta cifra es consistente con otras estimaciones cre\u00edbles, incluido un estudio realizado por investigadores de la Escuela de Salud P\u00fablica TH Chan de Harvard, la Universidad Carlos Albizu en Puerto Rico y la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Colorado.<\/p>\n
En su carta al presidente, los legisladores condenaron en\u00e9rgicamente los tuits del presidente Trump sobre el n\u00famero de muertos en los que afirmaba que \u201c3000 personas no murieron en los dos huracanes que azotaron a Puerto Rico\u201d y sugirieron que los dem\u00f3cratas inflaron el n\u00famero de muertos para para difamarlo pol\u00edticamente.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cEstos comentarios fueron extremadamente inexactos, insensibles, vergonzosos y por debajo de la dignidad de la Oficina del Presidente de los Estados Unidos\u201d, escribieron los legisladores. \u201c\u2026(Usted) trat\u00f3 de distorsionar la verdad y, al hacerlo, insult\u00f3 gravemente a las familias de luto de los miles de ciudadanos estadounidenses que murieron a causa de Mar\u00eda y las secuelas de la tormenta\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Los legisladores tambi\u00e9n rechazaron los comentarios del presidente como un intento deliberado de desviar la culpa de la respuesta de su administraci\u00f3n al hurac\u00e1n Mar\u00eda. \u201cLa p\u00e9rdida de vidas de ciudadanos estadounidenses no es un truco pol\u00edtico, y este no es un asunto partidista\u201d, continuaron los legisladores. \u201cDe hecho, uno podr\u00eda suponer f\u00e1cilmente que su comentario es un esfuerzo flagrante por politizar esta tragedia nacional para distraer, dividir y desviar la culpa de c\u00f3mo el gobierno federal respondi\u00f3 al hurac\u00e1n\u201d.<\/p>\n
Los legisladores pidieron al presidente Trump que se disculpe r\u00e1pidamente por sus declaraciones sobre el n\u00famero de muertos, que mejore sus esfuerzos para ayudar a Puerto Rico en su recuperaci\u00f3n y que se asegure de que su Administraci\u00f3n brinde una respuesta efectiva al hurac\u00e1n Florence.<\/p>\n
Adem\u00e1s de Merkley, Wyden y Warren, la carta fue firmada por los senadores Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Dianne Feinstein ( D-Calif.), Kirsten Gillibrand (DN.Y.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) , Robert Menendez (DN.J.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) y Patty Murray (D-Wash.).<\/p>\n
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