Puerto Rico: The Greece of the Caribbean
New York
THERE was a time when it might have been said that Puerto Rico, in the midst of a wrenching debt crisis, was returning to its Latin roots. After all, Latin American governments were once world leaders in over-indebtedness. But US's public debt now stands at over 100 per cent of its GDP (gross domestic product), and Detroit has just gone through bankruptcy. Perhaps Puerto Rico is, at last, becoming more American.
Or perhaps it is becoming more European, given the resemblance of its debt problems to those of Greece. After the adoption of the eu…
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