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Article: Of America, but not in it. (larger smaller cities; San Juan, Puerto Rico) (American Survey)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 17, 1989
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Larger small cities
Of America, but not in it
Not all American cities are in America proper. In our penultimate profile of a larger small city, we look at San Juan, capital of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
COMPARED with most of its neighbours in the Caribbean, San Juan is an up-to-date, all-American city. There are multi-storey office buildings, strips of fast-food restaurants, and even a super-modern shopping mall, Plaza Las Americas, that could have been airlifted from Atlanta. Because Puerto Rico is a dependency of the United States--say "colony" with trepidation--you can also sign up for the Marines at one of their handy recruiting ...
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