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The decline of Puerto Rico's coffee industry has much to do with its awkward economic and political situation. During the Spanish-American War, the United States had established a strong and lasting coffee trade treaty with Brazil, a coffee power, and did not give much consideration to Puerto Rico, which had just been won. Moreover, the economic purpose of the United States in the Caribbean is mainly concentrated in the sugar industry, which also makes the local sugar cane production so prosperous that the small coffee retail investors have no way to fight, and the coffee manufacturers that can survive have to merge again and again to retain their strength. The quality of local varieties is said to be affected as a result.

Puerto Rico doesn't even have enough coffee for domestic consumption these days. It needs to import green beans from other places for roasting, so we don't know how much of the coffee we buy is picked on the island.

But the shortage of coffee on the island is not entirely due to the decline in production. Because of closer ties with the United States, few locals are willing to engage in coffee picking. According to records, a quarter of the coffee grown on trees every year is wasted because coffee farmers go to work in the United States. Those who remain, because of minimum wage laws, government subsidies, and other social welfare reasons, are also reluctant to do the work of bending over all day in the hot sun on the big slope. At last count, the island's population was estimated at 3.9 million, compared with 4.2 million in the mainland United States, Puerto Rico. No wonder recently the state government is weighing the use of prisoners to pick coffee beans. No one knows how effective the inmates who prefer to stay in air-conditioned cells are.

Puerto Rico has the highest GDP per capita in Latin America, but it is lower than Mississippi, the poorest state, with 41% living below the poverty line. But if it imports labor from elsewhere, it will have to pay minimum federal wages and minimal health insurance, and comply with stricter environmental policies. As a result, it loses competitiveness with neighboring countries such as Dominica, Jamaica and Cuba.

Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Sea, picturesque, pleasant climate all year round, beaches, monuments, large forests, but also suitable for the growth of high-quality coffee soil and rain, natural conditions are unique. Because it is within the territory of the United States, domestic tourists, including foreigners in the United States, do not need to apply for passports and visas to travel, and there is no language barrier. Originally these are its strengths, tourism and coffee economy should be booming. But not only has the former coffee kingdom lost its halo, but its government finances are in jeopardy. There are many reasons for this, and its embarrassing position in the geopolitical economy of the United States may not be unrelated to this.

From this, I think of the vast land in the east, strong young people, driven by life, left their homes, prosperous north, wide and deep, but deserted the local hometown, forgetting a large number of left-behind children. Is this the only way for some people to get rich first?

And when you think about living in similarly picturesque but expensive Hawaii, there are few local families who don't rely on a second or even third job to make ends meet. How many tourists who come and go in a hurry will understand the price paid by those who live in "heaven"