An Impromptu Memorial To Demand That Puerto Rico's Hurricane Dead Be Counted
Luis Vázquez walked up to the elegant marble plaza in front of Puerto Rico's capitol building, bent over, and took off his shoes. He placed them among more than 400 other pairs that over several hours on Friday began forming a growing memorial to the hundreds, possibly thousands of people believed to have died as a direct or indirect result of Hurricane Maria, but whom Puerto Rico's government has yet to count.
Vázquez said his father was one of them.
"We thought he wasn't communicating with us because he had no power in his cellphone because there was no electricity," Vázquez said. "So the first week we thought it was normal." The second week, Vázquez's sister made it to their father's house. His decomposing body was in the bathtub. They still don't know what killed Luis Manuel Vázquez, and because they cremated him quickly, they likely never will.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/01/616216225/an-impromptu-memorial-to-demand-puerto-ricos-hurricane-dead-be-counted
