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Marketing a devastated Puerto Rico should not be the priority

  • Written by Carlos A Suárez Carrasquillo, Lecturer in Political Science, University of Florida

President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria added one more moment of infamy to Puerto Rico’s 119 years as a colonial territory.

Trump was taken to Muñoz Rivera, a middle-class neighborhood in Guaynabo. Most homes there are made of concrete and saw little impact from Hurricane Maria....

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