The Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved a project that looks to set the foundations for a native pharmaceutical industry to reduce the impact of the exodus of foreign pharmaceutical companies.

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Recently, this newspaper published a cover story that revealed alarming data: the Puerto Rican exodus over the past decade, mainly to northern latitudes, has cost the country at least $3,000 million. According to this analysis, conducted by an economist friend, have it not been for so many people leaving, the public debt burden per person would be less severe.