Once-thriving Puerto Rico mountain town faces economic abyss
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LARES, Puerto Rico (AP) — Ismael Rodriguez looked out on a nearly empty plaza from the clothing store he opened in 1960, now hemmed in by padlocked businesses in this mountain town in northwes…