Following are some emails exchanged between Warrior Angeles Rescue (WAR) a nonprofit organization and the USSD, which illustrate the cries for help, the desperation of those Americans #stuckinperu and the indifference and obstruction of the US State Department in letting flights coordinated by WAR at no cost to them and no cost to the US government:
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From: Valerie Date: May 9, 2020 at 7:34:33 AM PDT To: "Finnegan, Neil P" Cc: media@aclu.org Subject: Re: WARRIOR ANGELS RESCUE - Humanitarian Flight Scheduled for 05 MAY 2020
Good morning, Mr. Finnegan and USSD Team,
Following up on this issue of the stamped passports, on behalf of each of our passengers who were scheduled for the humanitarian flight that the US blocked.
Can you please update us (and even more important, them) ASAP on what the Peruvian authorities said when you reached out to them 4 days ago?
Additionally, can you please explain why the US State Department, or any branch of the federal government, is denying Americans a FREE, desperately needed flight home to the US?
Once again, WAR will offer the same assistance we have been offering since March 21st: we can organize an additional flight for $150+ Americans, to assist in your efforts to repatriate the thousands stranded in Peru. As you know, this flight is 100% funded by donations, it would cost $0 to the passengers, and it would cost $0 to the American taxpayer.
What is your reason for blocking this flight?
Are you comfortable with the fact that our fellow Americans have already died waiting for a repatriation flight they can afford? Just two days ago, the grandfather of one of our passengers passed away from a preventable heart attack, because he ran out of his medications long ago. As you know, other Americans have died preventable deaths either because they couldn't afford a $2000 seat, or because they never heard back from their US Embassy.
Please reconsider allowing this flight to proceed (already greenlit by Peru and LATAM), so that at least the most vulnerable Americans are able to return to their homes and their jobs and their children.
Under separate cover I will send you some of the stories of these Americans who are desperate to go home, after 8 weeks of being ignored by their federal government. I urge you to read through them, and see this not as a money-making venture, but as the humanitarian crisis that it is.
Stay safe,
Valerie
Valerie Edmondson Bolaños Founder, Warrior Angels Rescue www.gofundme.com/help-americans-stuckinperu www.gofundme.com/evacuatePR
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WARRIOR ANGELS RESCUE in the news: NBC/Telemundo: https://www.telemundolasvegas.com/noticias/eeuu/estadounidenses-varados-en-peru-exigen-colaboracion-del/2073868/
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