When Everything Was Possible in Puerto Rican Film
A new documentary looks back at the remarkable cinema that came out of the island’s midcentury moment of optimism.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on Guatemala. During the first 50 years of U.S. control over Puerto Rico, the island’s governor was appointed by the White House. But in 1948, the first democratic election elevated Luis Muñoz Marín, a charismatic former pro-independence senator, to the post. During his first year in office, Muñoz Marín embarked on an ambitious attempt to transform Puerto Rico into a commonwealth with its own constitution and from an agrarian society into an industrial one. At the same time, he established the Division of Community Education, a...
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