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10.Press Gaggle by President Trump, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, Congresswoman Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon, transcribed by The White House, 10/3/17, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-gaggle-president-trump-press-secretary-sarah-sanders-congresswoman-jenniffer-gonzalez-colon-small-business-administrator-linda-mcmahon/.
11.David Begnaud, “Woman Behind Botched FEMA Contract to Deliver Meals in Puerto Rico Speaks Out,” CBS News, 2/8/18, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-behind-botched-fema-contract-to-deliver-meals-in-puerto-rico-speaks-out/.
12.Patricia Mazzei and Agustin Armendariz, “FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered,” New York Times, 2/6/18, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/fema-contract-puerto-rico.html.
13.Tami Abdollah, “AP Exclusive: Big Contracts, No Storm Tarps for Puerto Rico,” Associated Press, 11/28/17, https://www.apnews.com/cbeff1a939324610b7a02b88f30eafbb.
14.Letter to Trey Gowdy, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, from Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member, and Stacey Plaskett, Member of Congress, 2/6/18, https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2018-02-06.EEC%20%26%20Plaskett%20to%20Gowdy%20re.FEMA-Tribute%20Contracting.pdf.
15.Ibid.
16.Ken Klippenstein, “$300M Puerto Rico Recovery Contract Awarded to Tiny Utility Company Linked to Major Trump Donor,” Daily Beast, 10/24/17, https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar300m-puerto-rico-recovery-contract-awarded-to-tiny-utility-company-linked-to-major-trump-donor.
17.Frances Robles, “The Lineman Got $63 an Hour. The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour,” New York Times, 11/12/17, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/whitefish-energy-holdings-prepa-hurricane-recovery-corruption-hurricane-recovery-in-puerto-rico.html.
18.Frances Robles and Deborah Acosta, “Puerto Rico Cancels Whitefish Energy Contract to Rebuild Power Lines,” New York Times, 10/29/17, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/us/whitefish-cancel-puerto-rico.html.
19.Frances Robles, “Puerto Rico’s Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks After Maria,” New York Times, 10/10/17, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/puerto-rico-power-hospitals.html.
20.“EPA Hurricane Maria Update for Wednesday, October 11th,” Press Release by EPA, 10/11/17, https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-hurricane-maria-update-wednesday-october-11th.
21.John Sutter, “EPA: Water at Puerto Rico Superfund Site Is Fit for Consumption,” CNN, 10/31/17, https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/health/puerto-rico-water-epa-superfund-test-results/index.html.
22.Mary Williams Walsh and Alan Rappeport, “White House Dials Back Trump’s Vow to Clear Puerto Rico’s Debt,” New York Times, 10/4/17, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/business/dealbook/trump-puerto-rico-debt.html.
23.Luis Ferré-Sadurní, “Higher Puerto Rico Death Toll Reflects Survey Across Island,” New York Times, 10/4/17, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/puerto-rico-death-toll-maria.html.
Chapter 6: Ready to Eat
1.Lisa Burgess, “MRES: It Could Be Worse (And It Was),” Stars and Stripes, 3/16/08, https://www.stripes.com/lifestyle/mres-it-could-be-worse-and-it-was-1.77097.
2.Peggy Mihelich, “Grub, Chow, Mystery Meat – Combat Food 2.0,” CNN, 9/13/07, Foodhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/13/combat.food/index.html.
3.“Meal, Ready-To-Eat,” Webpage by Defense Logistics Agency, http://www.dla.mil/TroopSupport/Subsistence/Operationalrations/mre.aspx.
4.Nathaniel Weixel, “Trump Officials Allow Puerto Ricans to Use Food Stamps for Hot Food,” The Hill, 10/3/17, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/353685-trump-admin-denied-puerto-rico-request-to-let-hurricane-victims-use.
5.“Update: US Northern Command Continues Puerto Rican Relief Efforts,” Press Release by US Northern Command, 10/9/17, http://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/1337668/update-us-northern-command-continues-puerto-rican-relief-efforts/.
Chapter 7: Seeing Red
1.“FEMA Expands Leadership Team in Puerto Rico,” Press Release by FEMA, 10/11/17, https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/10/11/fema-expands-leadership-team-puerto-rico.
2.“Can I Quit Now? FEMA Chief Wrote As Katrina Raged,” CNN, 11/4/05, http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/03/brown.fema.emails/.
3.“Speaker Ryan Visits Puerto Rico, Pledges Continued Support,” Press Release by Speaker Ryan Press Office, 10/13/17, https://www.speaker.gov/press-release/speaker-ryan-visits-puerto-rico-pledges-continued-support.
4.Alexia Fernández Campbell, “Puerto Rican Officials Claim the Water Crisis Is Under Control. Reports on the Ground Tell a Very Different Story,” Vox, 10/25/17, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/25/16504870/puerto-rico-running-water.
5.Hurricane Maria Three-Month Update, Webpage by the American Red Cross, January 2018, http://embed.widencdn.net/pdf/plus/americanredcross/vfimlniity/hurr-maria-three-month-update.pdf?u=0aormr&proxy=true.
Chapter 8: Transitions
1.Tim Carman, “After Maria, José Andrés and His Team Have Prepared More Hot Meals in Puerto Rico Than the Red Cross,” Washington Post, 10/18/17, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/10/18/post-maria-jose-andres-and-his-team-have-served-more-meals-in-puerto-rico-than-the-red-cross/?utm_term=.7b83eae80581.
2.Jake Gibson, “FBI in Puerto Rico Investigating If Corrupt Local Officials Are ‘Withholding’ or ‘Mishandling’ Crucial Supplies,” Fox News, 10/12/17, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/12/fbi-in-puerto-rico-investigating-mishandling-fema-supplies.html.
3.“An Update to US Northern Command’s Support to Puerto Rico,” Press Release by US Northern Command, 10/19/17, http://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/1349856/an-update-to-us-northern-commands-support-to-puerto-rico/.
4.National Constitution Center, “How a Hurricane Brought Alexander Hamilton to America,” 8/31/17, https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-a-hurricane-brought-an-important-founding-father-to-america.
5.Adrian Carrasquillo, “Chef José Andrés and the Trump Administration Are Fighting Over Puerto Rico,” BuzzFeed, 11/6/17, https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/chef-José-andres-and-the-trump-administration-are-fighting?utm_term=.cyqoaoNeW#.gp4NVNmJo.
6.Mahita Gajanan, “The American Government Has Failed.” Celebrity Chef José Andrés Slams FEMA’s Puerto Rico Response,” TIME, 10/16/17, http://time.com/4981655/José-andres-fema-trump-puerto-rico/.
Epilogue
1.Tim Sullivan, “Embracing Complexity,” Harvard Business Review, September 2011, https://hbr.org/2011/09/embracing-complexity.
2.“Keeping Faith With Our Fellow Americans” Alice Thomas, Refugees International, December 2017.
3.Jonathan M. Katz, The Big Truck That Went By: How The World Came To Save Haiti And Left Behind A Disaster (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013: p. 105).
4.“Using Checklists to Prevent Failure,” Harvard Business Review, January 2010, https://hbr.org/2010/01/using-checklists-to-prevent-fa.html.
5.Richard Parker, “The Military Was Ready in Texas and Florida. What Went Wrong in Puerto Rico?” Politico, 10/2/17, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/02/us-military-puerto-rico-215668.
6.Tami Abdollah, “Emails Show FEMA Silent As Puerto Rico Sought Generator Fuel,” Washington Post, 3/21/18, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/emails-show-fema-silent-as-puerto-rico-sought-generator-fuel/2018/03/21/29286352-2cbf-11e8-8dc9-3b51e028b845_story.html?utm_term=.cf0aeb6269a9.
7.Testimony of Brock Long, FEMA administrator, under questioning by the House Homeland Security Committee, “Preparedness, Response and Rebuilding: Lessons from the 2017 Disasters,” 3/15/18, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRA51-EZX58.
8.Oxfam’s country director in Haiti admitted using prostitutes at his Oxfam villa, and was allowed to resign without disciplinary action. See Oxfam’s official report here: “Oxfam Releases Report Into Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Haiti,” Press Release by Oxfam, 2/19/18, https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2018-02-1
9/oxfam-releases-report-allegations-sexual-misconduct-haiti.
9.Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger and Laura Sullivan, “The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster,” ProPublica, 10/29/14, https://www.propublica.org/article/the-red-cross-secret-disaster.
10.Letter from Richard Rieckenberg to Trevor Riggen, 11/18/12, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1346529-letter-to-trevor-riggen-nov-18-2012.html#document/p1/a184560.
11.Nishant Kishore et al., “Mortality in Puerto Rice after Hurricane Maria,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 5/29/18.
12.Taylor Rock, “José Andrés Is Feeding Californians Displaced by Violent Wildfires,” Los Angeles Times, 12/7/17, http://www.latimes.com/food/sns-dailymeal-1860436-eat-jose-andres-feeds-california-fire-120717-20171207-story.html.
Photos Section
Serving sancocho next to Chef José Enrique at his restaurant in Santurce, where the #ChefsForPuertoRico operation began.
Our first sandwich line inside José Enrique’s stricken dining room.
A human chain of villagers in Utuado delivering hot meals from the Goya helicopter.
Wherever we served meals, I liked to talk to Puerto Ricans, especially children, about what life was like for them.
The Yummy Dumplings food truck was part of my Navy SEAL operations going to difficult areas like this one in Loíza—delivering food and gathering intelligence.
The cooks and volunteers at the Iglesia Jesucristo Monte Moriah, led by Eliomar Santana, standing above me.
Erin Schrode, COO of Chefs For Puerto Rico, was great at making real connections with the people we were feeding on the island.
I loved supporting the local food economy, especially when I saw fresh land crabs caught by my friend Papo, who did all the hard and dangerous work!
Delivering food to Don Lolo, a ninety-two-year-old veteran, who lives in Loíza on a street that remained flooded for weeks after the hurricane.
Whenever the food trucks stopped on their regular routes, there were long lines of hungry Puerto Ricans who came to rely on our mobile deliveries.
The destruction at Humacao airport.
Volunteers at one of the massive sandwich lines at El Choliseo.
Delivering asthma medicine across a collapsed bridge to Lilia Rivera in the remote town of Río Abajo.
With schools closed, or only open for a short time, children across the island were one of our top priorities.
Crossing the river to San Lorenzo was dangerous but vital in helping us understand the real needs on the island.
Our friends at Homeland Security Investigations were one of our earliest partners, distributing our sandwiches to some of the most remote corners of the island.
About the Authors
JOSÉ ANDRÉS is the founder and chairman of World Central Kitchen, the NGO behind #ChefsForPuertoRico, and co-founder of ThinkFoodGroup, which has more than thirty restaurants around the world. Andrés is a Michelin-starred, James Beard Award–winning chef, and was twice named among Time’s “100 Most Influential People.” He is also the author of several cookbooks in English and Spanish.
RICHARD WOLFFE is the co-writer of Andrés’s cookbooks and his two PBS series on regional cooking in Spain. Formerly at the Financial Times, Newsweek, and NBC News, Wolffe is a columnist for The Guardian and the New York Times bestselling author of three books about Barack Obama.
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