I grew up hearing a saying, "you missed the forest for the trees" and for the longest time, I wondered exactly what that meant. It wasn't until a funny, skinny and chain-smoking reporter at the defunct The San Juan Star gave me a definition. He said, "It’s simple, the saying means that sometimes we focus on something so much that we lose perspective of everything else.”
President Barack Obama signed Thursday an order declaring 12 towns as disaster areas, following severe storms, flooding, mudslides, and landslides during the period of May 20 to June 8, 2011. The order makes it possible for Puerto Rico to receive federal aid to supplement the expenses incurred by the central and municipal governments.
U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Francisco Sánchez urged Puerto Rico Wednesday to take advantage of the recently formed U.S. Corporation for Travel Promotion, which has $200 million to market the mainland and its jurisdictions on a global scale.
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