Hello, Dennis.  I love reading your comments.  The situation with PR is a bit complicated, and certainly feeds (inadvertently) into the wholly inadequate responses our friends there receive at times like this.  Several attempts over the years in having the citizens in PR vote to become a true state in the Union have been repeatedly rejected.  PR used to be a huge draw for tourism, with many vacation resorts and large hotels, and I seem to recall that the island also was involved with pharmaceutical manufacturing.  PR was quite successful and both the island and the mainland prospered from it.  Then, the US Congress, with its racist lurch to the right, withdrew all federal support (like it provides to the 50 states) from PR and with it went the tax incentives for the industries located there.  The local economy collapsed, and perhaps the hurricane wiped away the rotting remains of those long neglected buildings.  The US is complicit in it all, and recent weeks have proved it again.