Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Why would anyone choose to live in Puerto Rico?

US bailouts keep this poor relation afloat through bankruptcies, hurricanes and political bust-ups without even trying to boost its demographics or reverse its economic decline

An abandoned windmill for salt mining at Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. [Getty Images] 
issue 06 July 2024

From the eastern Atlantic, the US looks boringly uniform. Yet Alaska is almost as different from Alabama as Turku is from Turkey. If you travel the length of the Mississippi, food, laws, customs and lingo change as surprisingly as along the Danube. Particularism is rife. In two counties in Vermont, there are warrants for the arrest of George W.

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