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BORIMIX Afternoon Tertulia – The Third Foundation of San Juan

  • The Clemente Center 107 Suffolk Street New York, NY, 10002 United States (map)

Historian Aníbal Sepúlveda Rivera argues that San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, has been re-founded twice. There is the first well-known re-foundation of 1521, when the capital was moved from a mosquito-infested swamp unto the islet it currently occupies; but there was a second re-foundation that happened around the late 1940’s, when the capital first experienced an almost uncontrolled suburban expansion. This happened during the aggressive industrialization of the island in the post-war years; it is also when the diaspora to the United States, particularly in New York City, grew massively. This conversation between Anibal Sepúlveda and curator Monxo López will investigate this curious argument.

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BORIMIX AFTERNOON TERTULIA SAN JUAN: A CITY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WALL

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