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With election looming, Puerto Rico is at a crossroads.(The Orlando Sentinel)
Byline: Matthew Hay Brown
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ In the first debate of the gubernatorial campaign here, Anibal Acevedo Vila hammered former Gov. Pedro Rossello so relentlessly on the graft that stained his administration that Rossello finally likened him to a scorpion.
But that turned out to be just the beginning. The candidates ended the encounter at a San Juan television studio last month with an arm-clutching, finger-in-the-face grapple before the cameras.
Tempers are hot and the charges are flying in the race to replace Gov. Sila Calderon, the first woman to govern this U.S. territory of 3.9 million _ and the first chief executive in the 52-year history of the commonwealth government to decline a run for re-election.
She leaves an island at a crossroads, with the tax breaks that once lured American corporations expiring, the military bases that made the island an important Cold War outpost closing, and hemispheric trade deals opening U.S. markets to Latin American rivals.
Her successor will take ...
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