Puerto Rico Debt Crisis: Entrepreneurs Hope To Reinvent Island’s Economy Despite Looming Defaults
Angiemille Latorre said she’s no stranger to crisis. When she launched her design consulting firm in Puerto Rico eight years ago, the global economy was plunging into the worst downturn in recent history. Now in Puerto Rico, another crisis is unfolding as the government struggles to pay its $72 billion of debt. Yet Latorre’s firm is booming as she adds new corporate clients across the island and beyond.