Singer: Bad Bunny
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Song: El Apagon Aqui Vive Gente
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They're displacing native
Puerto Ricans.
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-Yes.
-Absolutely.
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With the famous 30-day notice letter
that asks us to leave.
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And now, where do I go?
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What if they charge me over there
something I can't pay?
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There are big economic
interests at play.
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And it's going on in
all of Puerto Rico.
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We'll be foreigners in our own land.
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We must organize, ma'am.
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Because when those below move,
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those above come tumbling down.
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Come on now! Less talking
and more eating!
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Help yourselves, you're my guests.
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I haven't had this in a while.
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God bless this flavor.
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Amen!
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This is Puerto Rico.
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But life here isn't the
same for everyone.
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Some arrive with advantages
and benefits.
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And some have been here forever
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and are now feeling displaced.
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And take away what belongs to them.
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But there are also those who
created these conditions.
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And those who hold the power
to change them.
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PEOPLE LIVE HERE
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Story by Bianca Graulau
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They left this at my door.
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"You must vacate and deliver these
facilities within thirty days.
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Thank you for your time here.
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We wish you the best."
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Maricusa came to Puerto Rico from
the Dominican Republic
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in the 1990s.
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I clean, I cook, I wash clothes,
I iron them.
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Everything related to housekeeping...
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Count on me because I like
and enjoy what I do.
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She's been renting this apartment in
Santurce for almost 26 years.
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My daughter used to sleep here with
her youngest son, Christopher.
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But in May, she received a letter
telling her to leave
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because the building had a new owner.
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I said, "I'm leaving whenever
I find another place
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where I can keep what I need
and send my things."
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And in other words, he said,
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"You have so many things here.
Just throw them away,"
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as a way of pressuring me
to leave immediately.
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What I was paying
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wasn't enough for them to cover costs,
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and me staying here
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was causing them to lose money.
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If I'm paying 600 and some crazy person
comes and offers 2,500...
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He said this was going to
be rented for $2,500.
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The average monthly income of
a Puerto Rican household
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is less than $1,800.
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They're displacing Puerto Ricans
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to get rich with what's from here,
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with what's native from here.
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The new owners of the building
where Maricusa lives
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are a company that buys and
resells properties.
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And they're already reselling
it at 1.5 million dollars.
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The ad says they only
accept cash offers.
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And that tenants can
vacate in 30 days.
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It's abusive.
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I'm already 68.
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There are people much older than me
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who have spent half of their lives
or half a century here.
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Throwing them away with
no repercussions...
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It hurts.
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This is the neighborhood
where I was born
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The little corner where
I used to live...
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My great-great-grandmother,
my great-grandmother,
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my grandmother, my mom, and myself,
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were born here, as were my kids.
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I always say that because I was
born in Puerta de Tierra,
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I want to die in Puerta de Tierra.
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The neighborhood of Puerta de
Tierra is the entrance to
the inlet of San Juan.
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It's where the Puerto Rico
Capitol is located,
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next to famous Old San Juan.
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As you see, we're in front
of the San Juan Bay.
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It's a privileged place, it's
a treasure for millionaires
and rich people.
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But this wasn't always
a coveted place.
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Enslaved people lived
in Puerta de Tierra
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after obtaining their liberty
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because the high classes wanted
to keep them outside the
city walls of San Juan.
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Eventually, those slums became
public housing projects.
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But in the past two decades, the
government of Puerto Rico
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has torn down a thousand
public housing units
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for low-income families.
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Where are we now? How's
this place called?
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This is Condominio Las Acacias,
in Puerta de Tierra.
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Where I was raised.
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Public housing projects are the
heart of Puerta de Tierra.
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If they remove us, Puerta
de Tierra will die.
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If they remove the housing projects,
Puerta de Tierra will die.
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I lived there. For 54 years,
I lived on that corner.
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Look at it now: a building, a new
housing project for the rich.
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I was born there, and
I can't go in there.
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Because we're Black and poor they're
abusing us, you know?
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And it isn't fair to be displaced
by economic interests.
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They want us to leave.
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No, we were born here. They are
the ones that should leave.
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The only thing those millionaire
investors have done for us
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is rocking us to sleep.
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Rock-a-bye, baby
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On the tree top
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We'll soon throw you out
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Of your community
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I used to live over there. Down
the corridor to the right.
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Laura Mía González lived in this
private apartment building
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until she received a notice in 2019
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saying that the building had
a new owner and she had
to vacate in 30 days.
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Well, at the time I felt frustrated.
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Firstly, because people were living
there for almost 30 years.
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When you've lived 30 years
in the same place,
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you establish a relationship
with the community.
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Twenty-one families had to leave
the La Ferretería building.
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You can't come here with a
colonizer's mentality,
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thinking that people don't live here
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or that the people that did can be discarded
with an eviction letter
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thinking they'll just find
some other place.
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Laura Mía paid a $300 rent
for her apartment.
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Today, the La Ferretería
apartment units
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are short-term rentals that
cost $150 per night.
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No one is saying that it isn't
a profitable business.
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This is a great business,
and even more so if you
almost don't pay taxes.
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Puerto Rico, where I'm from,
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is becoming an increasingly
popular place to move
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among wealthy Americans.
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It's the tax incentives that make
Puerto Rico very appealing,
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specifically Act 22.
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And crucially, the island has become
a tax haven for the wealthy.
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There's a law in Puerto Rico
that allows foreigners
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to avoid paying certain taxes
when they move here.
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It's called Act 22, which is
now a part of Act 60.
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With this law, when someone
moves to Puerto Rico,
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they don't pay any capital gains taxes
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on things such as stocks, cryptocurrency,
or real estate.
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I'm moving to Puerto Rico!
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It's like the only place you can live
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with zero percent capital gains.
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There are more than three thousand
people benefiting from that law.
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These benefits, compounded with
the low property prizes
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after Hurricane Maria,
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are an opportunity for some.
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Puerto Rico!
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Puerto Rico is an absolute gold mine
for real estate investing...
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Oh, my gosh! The tax advantages...
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Puerto Rico is the best place for
you to buy real estate in 2022.
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The new owner of the La
Ferretería building
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is an Act 22 beneficiary.
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Chaim Meir Hazan has bought 15 properties
in Puerta de Tierra,
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but he isn't the only one.
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Since 2018, eight Act
22 beneficiaries
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have acquired at least 28 properties
in the neighborhood.
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I call them colonizing invaders
because they behave as such.
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Of course, the government has
delivered the country to them
on a silver platter.
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One of the 28 properties the Act
22 beneficiaries bought
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used to be a public school.
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My school.
I learned to read here.
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I used to play here with Vico C!
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Sixth grade. Miss Martínez.
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She was my aunt, my mom's sister.
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There. Sixth grade.
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Martin G. Brumbaugh School is one
of the more than 600 schools
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the government of Puerto Rico has
closed in the past ten years.
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Don't close the school!
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Don't close the school!
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Don't close the school!
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Now, this school will be an apartment
building with a sea view.
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When the day ended, you could see
whales coming to give birth.
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The teachers would take
us to see the show.
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I get teary-eyed every
time I come by here.
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I'm holding back the tears but...
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Many properties bought by beneficiaries
are then dedicated to tourism.
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Some scholars compare
the tourism economy
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with the plantation economy.
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Because the United States invaded and
took possession of Puerto Rico
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by the end of the 19th century,
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U.S. sugar companies were enabled
to take over the land.
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They hired Puerto Ricans as workers
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and paid them low wages that
kept them in poverty.
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Today, Puerto Rico is still
a U.S. possession
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and these incentives give
Americans an advantage
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and invite them to buy properties
in Puerto Rico.
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These properties frequently
become vacation rentals
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under the promise of service industry
jobs for the local population.
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The result is a foreign owner that
hoards all the profits.
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... three words in English!
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Gringo, go home!
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Gringo...
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Yankee, go home!
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Yankee, go home!
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Act 20 and Act 22
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will allow gringos to come here
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to speculate with our lands.
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This attack, which has been from
a racial point of view
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or due to race or class...
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It's complicated.
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Simply saying, "Gringo, go home",
or those sorts of things
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certainly doesn't contribute to the
country's political stability.
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Rafael "Tatito" Hernández is one of
the Puerto Rican politicians
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that have received donations
from Act 22 beneficiaries.
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In the past three years, they have
contributed more than $240,000
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to the political campaigns
of the Governor
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and the leaders of the Puerto
Rico Legislature.
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The Governor received the most
significant amount of money.
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I'm very passionate about this issue.
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I come from humble beginnings,
and I know what it is
like to go to school,
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and see the communities' social situations
and their disadvantages.
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But we can't stop development.
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The most significant contributor to
the leading political figures
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is Brian Tenenbaum.
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You do Act 22, it's a no-brainer.
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The person who bought the school of
the Puerta de Tierra community.
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They see that the government is taking
resources away from them
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and serving them on a silver platter
to people with a lot of money.
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Don't you see it that way?
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Yes. Of course.
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Puerta de Tierra is a case...
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If you analyze it and have seen the community
throughout many years...
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It's been in shambles for 40 years.
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So this is how they're renovating,
in some way or another,
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an area that was truly in a
very pressing situation.
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It still is.
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This is an issue of supply and demand.
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Many people selling to these
investors are from the
community themselves.
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But it's not just housing and schools,
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another resource at risk are
Puerto Rican beaches.
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According to law, all beaches
in Puerto Rico are public.
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But some believe they are being
taken away from the people
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by construction sites.
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Or that entrances are being
closed, like in Dorado.
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Dorado hosts beachfront mansions
and luxury hotels.
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According to law, there must
be multiple entrances
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through those private terrains
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to allow people to get to the coast.
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But in recent years, they
have been closed.
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Now the only entrance available
is through the public beach.
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If we want to get to that beach
over there we have to
walk all the way there?
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All the way there.
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There's no other entrance.
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Rosa Rivera Martínez works as a house
cleaner in Dorado Beach.
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I think that where I work I do a
bit more than just cleaning.
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I give a little bit of
that flavor of...
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Puerto Rico!
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But during her off days, Rosa
doesn't have an easy way
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to access the beach her
employers enjoy.
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