Puerto Rico Seeks a Brighter Economic Future. Tourists Welcome
Published on: Tuesday 03 November 2015
Nestled in the Cayey mountains, a little over an hour’s drive from San Juan, sits the municipality of Aibonito. To get there you leave Puerto Rico’s sandy beaches behind and take a winding road that snakes through miles of rain forest before reaching the area’s semitropical ecosystem, 2,400 feet above sea level. The damp, temperate climate is ideal for agriculture, and for decades horticulture was Aibonito’s major industry. Not anymore. In these hard times few people buy flowers.