well, just from a logistics point of view, there's almost not another
option - the island is going to cost billions of dollars to rebuild, so,
what do you do? add another 20 billion dollars of debt? can they even
get credit, when they're 130 billion dollars in the hole already? so,
then what else do you do - let the island sink? there's really only two
choices for puerto rico, right now: debt forgiveness or total
evacuation.
remember: trump is somebody that understands bankruptcy quite well.