El Amal closed its doors a week ago.  (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual) Almost a week after closing down its local operation, El Amal’s parent company, A+HC Holding Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, buckling to the island’s ongoing economic problems and the banking crisis they said compounded their operational problems. This is the second […]

El Amal will open a single store on Friday. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual) Health Department officials said Thursday they reached an agreement with the owners of El Amal to open a single store in the San Juan metropolitan area, to fulfill prescriptions that were left pending when the drugstore chain closed its doors late last […]

El Amal’s owners left only a brief note on the door to announce the closing. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual) Local drugstore chain El Amal closed down its 22 stores Saturday, taping only a brief note on the door to explain its decision to customers. It has been reported that some 600 people will lose their […]