San Juan, Puerto Rico.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As a bartender at La Factoría, a popular bar in Puerto Rico, Celso Meléndez Vázquez has had a front row seat to the rise of misbehaving visitors in the island’s money. 

Meléndez Vázquez is effective and lives in the common vacationer place of Aged San Juan, and he was nervous about all the violent incidents occurring with tourists around the place who refused to adhere to regional confront mask specifications. 

“I would sometimes go to operate imagining, ‘Is this the day I’m likely to have some aggressive interaction with someone?’ ” 

When he clocked out of work, he would encounter a sea of folks in the streets not wearing masks.

The existing executive purchase in Puerto Rico, enacted on Feb. 8, states masks ought to be worn at all occasions, including outside. The island’s curfew also runs from midnight to 5 a.m., and firms are allowed to continue to be open up until eventually 11 p.m.