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After each hardship that has hit Puerto
Rico in the past few years, its people
have banded together and built anew.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras finds passion,
creativity, and a sense of community
among the resilient residents of San Juan,
who are determined to help build a
culture more vibrant than ever before.
Photographs by Soraya Matos
From left: La
Factoría, a bar in
Old San Juan; the
beach at the Caribe
Hilton, the hotel
that transformed
the island into a
vacation mainstay;
San Juan’s eastern
skyline as seen
from the Condado
neighborhood.
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