Puerto Rico’s complex politics Hurricanes Irma and Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, with Maria killing an estimated 3,000 people and becoming one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history.

Overall, it’s rare for tourists to be killed in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of 3.2 million people.. Before Romero signed the new code, bar and restaurant owners warned they would see a drop in ...

See the scale of Puerto Rico’s flooding by Hurricane Fiona in maps, ... San Juan, the capital, was spared the storm’s worst effects, and parts were among the first to get power back.