In 2012, Puerto Rico passed two laws granting significant tax exemptions to new residents. The idea was to encourage growing companies and investors to settle on the Caribbean island, creating jobs and boosting the local economy in the process. But over the past decade, as developers, cryptocurrency investors, and other wealthy outsiders flocked to Puerto Rico in search of a tax haven, locals have been increasingly displaced. Real estate prices have risen, as has the cost of living. The inequality gap is wider than ever. That’s why Manuela Paz and Christopher Rivera, partners in life and work, bought a new building for their gallery Embajada in the capital, San Juan, they saw it as a kind of political gesture. The only way to “fight gentrification,” Paz said, “is to own property.” “Because it’s a small gallery, it’s the only way to survive,” Rivera reiterated. “That’s what usually kills galleries – the rent. It is impossible.” “Buying something,” he added, “is a statement.” /div...