The Los Fundadores Public Square in the Municipality of Santa Isabel represents one of the most important meeting places of the town. (Credit: FEMA/Lorraine Valle-Rodríguez)
“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