Does the mayor of San Juan speak Spanish?
I watched her interview and read the comments, which found it incredible that she could have found a shop which would print a T-shirt for her on an island that has no electricity. That didn;t bother me. I remember having to print silk screen items on a huge hand-cranked machine.
What seemed out of kilter to me did not enter my consciousness until later. (I've never claimed to be a fast thinker.) Why in the world did she have her anguish printed on a T-shirt in the English language? If I were crying for immediate help I would do it in my native tongue, which is English. In my desperation I probably would not even remember the word ayuda, or aidez moi or even aiuto, or if I could I would not remember how to pronounce it. No, help is the mot juste in this case.
When I visited Puerto Rico seven or eight years ago, the people spoke Spanish. Have they all gone to Berlitz since then? Unlikely.
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