SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Hope had come in with a song for La Perla, a seaside slum that had long been notorious as a violent enclave that served as Puerto Rico's biggest distribution point for ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hope had come in with a song for La Perla, a seaside slum that had long been notorious as a violent enclave that served as Puerto Rico’s biggest distribution point for ...

Hope had come in with a song for La Perla, a seaside slum that had long been notorious as a violent enclave that served as Puerto Rico’s biggest distribution point for heroin. The sound of clicking ...

Hope had come in with a song for La Perla, a seaside slum that had long been notorious as a violent enclave that served as Puerto Rico's biggest distribution point for heroin. The sound of clicking ...

In this Aug. 25, 2017 photo, a couple lounges poolside in the seaside slum La Perla, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. La Perla had long been notorious as a violent enclave that served as Puerto Rico’s ...

In this Aug. 25, 2017 photo, a man dives into a pool from the top of an abandoned home in the seaside slum La Perla, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. La Perla is a sort of scenic shantytown of about As Ben ...