‘Inept’ Puerto Rican government ‘riddled with corruption’: CEO | New York Post"Jorge Rodriguez, 49, is the Harvard-educated CEO of PACIV, an international engineering firm based in Puerto Rico that works with the medical and pharmaceutical sectors.
The Puerto Rican-born engineer says he has dispatched 50 engineers to help FEMA rehabilitate the devastated island — a commonwealth of the United States — after Hurricane Maria.
He refuses to work with the local government, which he called inept and riddled with corruption.
For the last 30 years, the Puerto Rican government has been completely inept at handling regular societal needs, so I just don’t see it functioning in a crisis like this one.
Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken.
And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.The governor Ricardo Rossello has little experience. He’s 36 and never really held a job and never dealt with a budget.
His entire administration is totally inexperienced and they have no clue how to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
For instance, shortly after the hurricane hit, the government imposed a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am and then changed it.
Now, it’s 7 pm to 5 am, and makes no sense.
The curfew has prevented fuel trucks from transporting their loads.
These trucks should have been allowed to run for 24 hours to address our needs, but they have been stalled, and so we have massive lines at gas stations and severe shortages of diesel at our hospitals and supermarkets.
