Puerto Rico Department of Education officials announced Monday the start of a $15 million technological upgrade program that aims to improve the infrastructure for Internet connectivity at the island’s 1,384 schools over the next five years.
WASHINGTON — Cuba, whose halting reforms have failed to energize the island’s stagnant, centralized economy, may have a thing or two to learn from Costa Rica — which over the last 30 years has made enormous strides in slashing poverty, promoting trade and luring foreign direct investment.
Puerto Rico’s “Great Recession,” as is the case with any complex phenomena, is not without its own myths.