This once-prosperous corner of the Caribbean has fallen on hard times, with an inability to pay off crushing debt driving millions into poverty – and out of the country: ‘When the ceiling’s coming down you don’t wait to get squashed’A few blocks south from the luxury seafront hotels built in the style of Spanish colonial mansions, cars sit rusting and ransacked near abandoned homes tattooed with graffiti. Groups of jobless men sit on the stoops of apartments and bars, living in a San Juan far removed from the version seen by tourists on beach vacations. Related: Economic exodus means two-thirds of Puerto Ricans may soon live in US Continue reading...
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