Puerto Rico announced a record $787 million financial package to fight the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic Monday, as the islands death toll hits two with 39 cases reported.

The pandemic follows a series of devastating earthquakes in Puerto Rico earlier this year and comes as the island continues to deal with fallout from Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Ricos infrastructure and killed at least 3,000.

One of the things that I think is evident, with the Trump administration and FEMA, we have to continue to remind them time and time again that we are people and that we deserve to be treated with the same sense of justice, urgency and dignity as anybody else, says DN guest, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yuln Cruz.

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