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RODRIGUEZ> The truckers are doing what they have to do. The one who's not doing what they have to do do is the government, okay?

REPORTER> Okay, but what does the governor have to do?

RODRIGUEZ> The governor needs to get to work, like the truckers. Because at 6am, a gas truck was already here. Ask all these people that have been here since 6am? [YELLS AT CROWD] Was the truck here at 6am?

CROWD> Yes!

REPORTER> Did you have any problems getting here?

CROWD> [mixes of Yes and No]

REPORTER> Why is it that the governor has to order the truckers to get to work?

RODRIGUEZ> Because the governor is the only one that can to get them to do it. Because he just passed a law, [on top of] (without much approval of) everyone, that he’s the only one that can dispatch truckers.

REPORTER> Nononono. It’s okay for him to pass a law but we are in a state of emergency. So are you telling me that you guys are in a fight with the governor and not going to work because of a law?

RODRIGUEZ> No, we are doing what we have to do.

REPORTER> You just said that it was because of a law.

RODRIGUEZ> No the trucks are getting out to work, and I call on all truckers to continue working and to work with their towns. Because it’s the truckers that have made it possible for us to navigate the streets of our country.

REPORTER> Okay, but that’s in the past. In the present… Right now, we need diesel, we need gas.

RODRIGUEZ> Well then let’s ask the federal government why we they don’t let us get it out? 

REPORTER> So then it’s not the trucker's faults? It’s not that there aren’t drivers?

RODRIGUEZ> They are not available to get the diesel and gas. There is diesel and gas here, the Puerto Rican governor was lucky that 3 weeks before Irma there was going to be a general strike, because of the law that he passed. 
REPORTER> But then you’re telling me you’re reprimanding the governor and not going out to work.

RODRIGUEZ> The thing is that he knows nothing about trucking. He has no patriotism.

REPORTER> But then why don’t you go the central command center for the government, in the convention center, with all the truckers and say “we are here.”

RODRIGUEZ> Because the truckers are already busy trying to transport cargo. This morning we already said that all the truckers that are ready to move the cargo. What the governor has to do, if he had pants, and would stop being afraid of the federal government, is allow the truckers to leave the docks. But we are a colony, and everyone knows it.

REPORTER> So you’re saying this long line is the government’s fault?

RODRIGUEZ> In part yes. In part yes. Even though this is a critical situation, we have asked all truckers to come out and work. And they are coming out to work. Now, you can’t ask a trucker that lives in ____ that lives in the hills, who have to drive impassable roads, that come down here. But all the metropolitan area… just this morning 7 gas trucks came by. 7! Diesel! So where is it that they’re bottlenecked?

Now I heard your radio, I heard ____, but ____ aren’t the only “angels” (here to save us). Where is their power? The power is in the truckers. If the truckers don’t move this country, it wont’ move for 2 years.

REPORTER> You just heard Victor Rodriguez, from the Wide Front for Truckers.

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