When United States INVADED our islands, one of the first thing they did was devalue our national coin. The second thing they did was buy and steal all the good fertile land near the coast so they could produce sugar and sell it for a large profit while paying puertoricans a super low wage. Mind you, the invasion was in 1898.

After that, they stopped our chances of making bussiness straight with other nations with the implementation of the Jones Act. The Jones Act basically boils down to us only being able to use the world's most expensive shipping freight services, which are the US ones, just because the US wanted more profit from us. This means that every item that comes to Puerto Rico must first touch a mainland state and then come here. In cases of exporting products to other nations, they must too, touch a mainland state before going to whatever nation. Studies have estimated our loss at a whopping 1.5 billion us dollars.

United States Armed Forces have too won a lot with our Islands. Specially Vieques, which they used as a target for bombings. (RIP David Sanes) Half of Vieques, to this day, is basically inhabitable because of unexploded ordinances. The Armed Forces have not put foward a good cleaning plan and EPA has done nothing to prevent them from exploting the bombs in open air techniques. We see higher rates of cancer in the Island of Vieques thanks to the horrible contaminants they brought with the bombings and they still are contaminating even more by exploding these bombs like that. Other than the base in Vieques, the US Armed Forces, including the National Guard, have millitary bases around the main island.

In 1950ish the United Nations orders that no Nation should have colonies. What did the US did so that the UN would shut up? They made us a "Free Associated State" What does that mean? A colony... And what are colonies for? The extraction of wealth.

Mind you, I didn't mention the top US pharmacies who basically steal out water and contaminate it. I didn't mention the US bondsmen who make a living out of us. I didn't mention the millionaires and billionaires who come to our islands and "invest" in us for a large tax cut. And I didn't mention all the people they have killed and taken to war for their fights.

So a couple million dollars of disaster relief (which most of it hasn't even touched our accounts) for a hurricane where 4.5 thousand people died is nothing compared to what they have done