Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
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>Brandon Cruz González
Wednesday, November 4-10, 2020 - // no. 080
Banco Popular Moving on Up P6-7 Peterson Upends FOMB Hearing P9 Moonshots Could Transform the Caribbean P10
>Josian E. Bruno Gómez
Gov.-Elect Faces Complicated
Economic Panorama
Economists: Government reforms are a must
W Rosario Fajardo
Active Aging: Mental Workouts P14
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ith just days before the Nov. 3 general elections, Puerto Rico’s six gubernatorial candidates engaged in a last-minute push to gain votes. As observers note, this has been an atypical year due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic — and in Puerto Rico, it has been an atypical four-year term. The island has experienced the massive devastation
of Hurricane Maria in Sept. 2017; the political upheaval of last summer, culminating in the resignation of then-Gov. Ricardo Rosselló; the series of earthquakes earlier this year; and then the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. At the same time, Puerto Rico has been grappling with a long-term economic recession, a demographic challenge as residents have left the island for the U.S. mainland, and the government’s bankruptcy-like process under the federal Promesa law. GO TO PAGE 4