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¿Por qué el azúcar se levantó... y el café no?

San Ciriaco hit Puerto Rico in 1899, but coffee and sugar did not recover on the same clock; the receipt is time, credit, capital, and crop biology.

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  • Stuart B. Schwartz places San Ciriaco just before the coffee harvest and records damage to fruit, trees, and shade.
  • Schwartz reports 1899 coffee exports at about 10 percent of the prewar five-year average and estimated 1899-1901 coffee losses at $12 million.
  • The episode contrasts coffee recovery time with sugar recovery structure without claiming sugar was unharmed.
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Stuart B. Schwartz, The Hurricane of San CiriacoLibrary of Congress: Hurricane San CiriacoLocal source packet: San Ciriaco coffee recoveryYouTube Short
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