Boston Globe: One mans tale shows how casualties of Maria go beyond official death toll

People are dying right now and Trump is talking about the NFL, taking away our
medical insurance, and going to the DMZ in Korea to provoke a war? The man
is a monster.


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COROZAL, Puerto Rico — He was a patient man who rarely betrayed his emotions, a father of six who didn’t want to trouble anyone for something he could do himself, even with his condition.

The four-bedroom home where he and his wife had lived for nearly four decades had been badly damaged during the storm, and they were now staying with a daughter who lived nearby, where there was no power or running water, like just about everywhere else on the island.

Still, Victor Hugo Ruiz didn’t complain.

When their cars began to run low on fuel — a crucial commodity, as he now used a car battery to power the machine helping to treat his emphysema — the 64-year-old retired bartender found a canister and walked to a gas station about a half mile from his daughter’s house in this small city near the island’s center.