A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THE TOBACCO IN PUERTO RICO: FROM THE INDIGENOUS PERIOD TO THE 21ST CENTURY - Luis Caldera OrtizThis work responds to a void that exists in Puerto Rican historiography on the development of tobacco on the island. Most of the studies on this subject are unpublished or are small syntheses in books of economic and general history. The work was designed as a historical look at tobacco in Puerto Rico. Primary and secondary sources were used to try to build a concise vision of the historical panorama of this crop. The first part of the writing, the