Aceras de San Juan: a career of obstacles for people with disabilities

As it was routine every afternoon, Antonio Luis Ruiz Ramos and a classmate walked home after leaving their school in Río Piedras. It was October 2003 and it rained copiously, so both teenagers took refuge under the balcony of a business on Avenida 65 in Infantería, in San Juan. When the rain began to give way, Ruiz Ramos resumed the road, but instead of stepping on firm ground, he fell down an open sewer that had been hidden under the water accu…