Ponce, Puerto Rico's fourth-largest city, is the birthplace of a long roster of Puerto Rican writers, statesmen, singers and poets. Known as the Ciudad Senorial (the Noble City) or La Perla del ...

Jose Rodrigo Madera's images capture the pain of the Puerto Rico-born photographer as he surveyed ... which connects Ponce on the southern coast to Arecibo in the north — are impassable after ...