Abstract
The Role of Plantations in the Puerto Rico Economy The collapse of sugar plantations since the nineteen fifties has been more than counterbalanced by the rise of two new sources of revenue : industry and tourism. Industry, powerfully backed by the local government and profiting by a free access to the American market, has developed first through manpower industries (textile, shoe, electric material) which are being more and more relieved today by chemical industries bound up with the refining of petroleum. As far as tourism is concerned, its expansion is due to the Commonwealth status granted by the United States which is the privilege of Porto Rico, and to the relative proximity of the «megalopolis», the connections by air being particularly frequent and cheap.
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