Dearest Clarisa:

Please share with Fermin our condolences. The lost of a loved one is always a heart wrenching experience and we would like for him to feel our love and respect for him and his beloved family during this painful and tragic moment they are experiencing. We hope that every member of our society can regain its love for life and becomes more sensitive and aware that it behooves all of us to work to put an end to the dysfunctionality that prevails in our homeland. Life is beautiful and its sacredness must be present in our hearts and mind constantly. We must transcend hatred, fear, greed and our attachment to trinkets and to escapism. Life has meaning and we must try to help those who have lost it or can't find it for themselves.

I can only imagine what he, their six year old daughter and all his children are going through. Let's hope we can help him and his loved ones to heal and transcend all the pain this horrible and tragic event has brought to them.

Take good care, much love and never forget you are my little world, olr.

The money poured in by the millions, then by the hundreds of millions, and finally by the billions. Over weak coffee in a conference room in Midtown Manhattan last year, a half-dozen Puerto Rican officials exhaled: Their cash-starved island had persuaded some of the country's biggest hedge funds to lend them more than $3 billion to keep the government afloat.

There were plenty of reasons for the hedge funds to like the deal: They would be earning, in effect, a 20 percent return. And under the island's Constitution, Puerto Rico was required to pay back its debt before almost any other bills, whether for retirees' health care or teachers' salaries.

But within months, Puerto Rico was saying it had run out of money, and the relationship between the impoverished United States territory and its unlikely saviors fell apart, setting up an extraordinary political and financial fight over Puerto Rico's future.

On the surface, it is a battle over whether Puerto Rico should be granted bankruptcy protections, putting at risk tens of billions of dollars from investors around the country. But it is also testing the power of an ascendant class of ultrarich Americans to steer the fate of a territory that is home to more than three million fellow citizens.