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Anger Builds 100 Days After Maria Hit Puerto Rico

Chaylin Palma says she struggles to have positive thoughts when her family is ending the year in the dark.
A donated solar lamp in a driveway illuminates storm debris still waiting to be collected earlier this week in Morovis, Puerto Rico.

One hundred days ago, powerful Category 4 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico leaving the island severely crippled and the more than 3 million U.S. citizens desperate for help.

Now, Puerto Ricans on the island and U.S. mainland are feeling angry and the lack of progress and they are organizing to demand help for Puerto Rico.

Though life has improved for some Puerto Ricans on the island more than three months since Maria hit, the Caribbean island is still

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