Letters

摘要

I was very disappointed with your latest story on Puerto Rico ("Buying on credit is so nice", November 23rd). Although the article was purportedly directed at the island's fiscal crisis, it gratuitously asserted that it "now handles 40% of the cocaine entering the United States". That is totally inaccurate according to estimates from American law-enforcement agencies, which put the proportion of cocaine coming into the United States from the entire Caribbean region at 14%. Nor did you explain that the primary responsibility for policing Puerto Rico's borders lies with the federal government.