Puerto Rico is at a crossroads. What tourists should know before booking.
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in March 2025. On any given Friday, La Placita – in the neighborhood of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico – is packed with partygoers drinking on the street shoulder-to-shoulder as they hop from one bar to another. It’s a cacophony of music and smells with numerous restaurants interspersed…