The Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto, attacked today, Tuesday, against a Telemundo reporter because he announced a report on the problems in the municipal hospital.
The expressions appeared during a press conference in which the municipal executive expressed his rejection of the appointment of Colonel José Juan García as the new commissioner of the San Juan Municipal Police under the new administration of Miguel Romero.
However, while listing her reasons, Cruz Soto mentioned that the person appointed to head the Health Department in the capital approved his leadership and contrasted the compliment with a report that should appear tonight on the program “Jay and his radiographs ”, about an apparent“ suite ”in the municipal hospital.
The mayor called the program “gossip” and assured that, due to the protocol activated by the COVID-19 pandemic, access could not be allowed.
Immediately afterwards, Cruz Soto began to list various awards he had won in the United States after Hurricane María.
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“People on their knees here are upset when you face someone who slanders the people of Puerto Rico. They are so used to living on their knees that they don’t know how to get up,” he said.
Shortly afterwards, the analyst and presenter of the mentioned program, Jay Fonseca, published in a tweet that the mayor insulted the journalist Tatiana Ortiz for her supervision.
“Today Carmen Yulín Cruz insulted Tatiana Ortiz saying we were on our knees because he was awarded awards around the world for his great efforts while in Jay and his x-rays we control it “, said the presenter.
“If you want, you can come to the program tonight so that we can offer you another prize “, he added.
Last week, the mayor had another run-in, but with a reporter from the now canceled “La Comay” program. In this situation, at the end of the press conference, the mayor was approached in connection with the helicopter that the municipality of San Juan would have lost.
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When the reporter insisted, Cruz Soto looked at the camera and urged the audience to connect to other channels and see the “real news.”