Showing posts with label puerto rico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puerto rico. Show all posts

11 September 2017

Spared Irma’s Worst, Puerto Ricans Sail to Virgin Islanders’ Aid



FAJARDO, P.R. — Puerto Rico, dealt only a glancing blow by Hurricane Irma, has become an impromptu emergency hub for its Caribbean neighbors that were left devastated by the storm’s wrath.

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22 October 2015

Obama Administration Draws Up Plan to Help Puerto Rico With Debt



Looking for a way to help debt-ridden Puerto Rico, administration officials on Wednesday proposed an ambitious — if politically perilous — plan that stops short of a direct federal bailout but that its backers hope is sweeping enough to keep the island from becoming America’s Greece.

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04 July 2015

Despair and Anger as Puerto Ricans Cope With Debt Crisis



SAN JUAN, P.R. — It’s the lunch hour at Baker’s Bakery, a fixture in Río Piedras, one of Puerto Rico’s oldest neighborhoods, but the bustle at the counter is long gone.

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