Puerto Rico mayors secure legislative support for cave park transfer while the Jones Act industry withholds a cost study and the law's effects on shipping costs and emergency relief are debated.
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Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on cf-lucid, 2026-10-22 00:52Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A stormy Puerto Rico landscape with mayors from Camuy, Hatillo, and Lares standing together, looking out at a cargo ship in the distance, as a tugboat named Venture sails by, with a library and a cave park visible in the background, under a grey sky with rain clouds.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A stormy Puerto Rico landscape with mayors from Camuy, Hatillo, and Lares standing together, looking out at a cargo ship in the distance, as a tugboat named Venture sails by, with a library and a cave park visible in the background, under a grey sky with rain clouds. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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Jones Act industry paid for a Puerto Rico cost study. They will not release it.
When the parties that benefit from this law refuse to publish their own internal research on its costs, that tells you exactly what that research finds.
By Marin Whitlock · 54mThe Jones Act industry does not want you to see the numbers it paid for.
In May 2013, the Puerto Rico maritime trade association for Jones Act operators and unions commissioned a full study of the law's costs on the island. That report was completed. It has never been released to the public.
Official government estimates have placed the annual national cost of the law between $860 million and $1.84 billion. Independent modelling finds repeal would save an estimated $1.91 billion per year.
The buried study's results would carry implications for Alaska, Guam and Hawaii as well. No one fighting to keep the Jones Act will let the public see the numbers they themselves ordered.
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