Abandoned spaces in the former Children’s Museum in the Old San Juan neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Jan 26, 2018. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times)
“This information confirms what is said and seen on the island: a decrease in the youth population, which has been reduced by more than a quarter of a million inhabitants over the past 20 years.”
— Hernán Vera, director of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico’s Observatory on Society, Governance and Public Policies