Fajardo Customs Front
Description
Main facade of the Customs building at Fajardo. In the lower part you can see three doors. Two of the doors have grilles. The right door is a double door made of wood painted with red. To access to the entrance there is a ramp with tiles. Over the middle door you can read: "U.S. Custom House". At the top part you can see eight windows. Over the roof stand out three dormer windows. The roof has roofing tiles cladding. Half of it is covered with a blue canopy. The other half is missing several of its roofing tiles. At the left background you can see a parking area and a tower. To the right you can see a street and part of a white building.| Origin Name |
Fajardo Aduana fronte 071
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| Relation |
Para la Naturaleza > Colección Mapa de Historia 2018 > Fajardo
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| Geographical Coverage |
Fajardo
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| Date |
2018
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title correction.
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| Descripción decolonial |
The Fajardo Customs House is a building constructed in 1931 to control the ports on the island. During the Spanish colonial era, the Power Act gave rise to a series of economic reforms in which free trade ports were created beyond San Juan: Fajardo, Mayagüez, Aguadilla, Cabo Rojo and Ponce. This promoted the economic development of Puerto Rico in the coastal areas, thus legalizing the ports that in the past were for smuggling. The transition from sovereignty to US rule forced the new colonizer to territorially control everything that entered and left Puerto Rico. The creation of the Foraker Act of 1900, beyond creating a civil government for Puerto Rico, imposed restrictions (Section 9) on trade to guarantee a monopoly of imports under the US flag: the Cabotage Law. This provided an economic isolationism that until later times suffocates local trade by design, thus preventing self-sufficiency and food sovereignty.
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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