Are we talking about the same Island?
I thought we were talking about Puerto Rico.
Not exactly what I would consider “third world”, since they are also legal USA citizens.
But since I have lived around the world a bit,including many CONUS states, perhaps I have a different world viewpoint.
I originally escaped from Michigan upon almost reaching adulthood.
Where the majority of the corrupt native population were scamming some form of government assistance, and voted majority Democrat...back in nineteen seventy something!
I’ve heard some rumblings that in the past decade or so, the majority of Michiganders learned that their previous corruption tricks don’t work well in the real world, in the long run.
Some even claim to be conservatives now!
Have spent some time on the island. The majority of the population receives the WIC card and those employed are disproportionately employed by a very bloated public sector that is at the root of this problem. It is a third world economy with a third world ethnic population (mixed European/African genetically). Median IQ of the island is 83.