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Vieques ponders its future as thousands celebrate anniversary of US Navy...
Thousands of activists on Wednesday celebrated the anniversary of the U.S. Navy’s departure from the Puerto Rican island of Vieques 10 years ago, despite concerns that progress has been slow in...
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10th Anniversary Commemoration: “Vieques Vive—La Lucha Continúa”
Vieques Vive: La Lucha Continúa [Vieques Lives: The Struggle Continues] is the theme for the 10th anniversary celebration of the closing of U.S. Navy’s firing range on the island of Vieques. The...
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Fishermen Find a Giant Bomb in Vieques Waters
Day before yesterday, on the 10-year anniversary of the US Navy’s departure from Vieques, Puerto Rico, fishermen found a gigantic bomb—over ten feet tall—some three miles north of the island, at a...
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Vieques Island’s Residents Fight for their Land and Health
As part of the “Puerto Rico: Unsettled Territory” project, Jerilyn Forsythe (Cronkite Borderlands Initiative) has written a very complete account of the situation that the apparently “idyllic island”...
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Vieques: A Poisonous Legacy?
As part of the Inside Story Americas (Al Jazeera) program, the special segment “Vieques: A Poisonous Legacy?” will air tonight at 8:30 Eastern (00:30 GMT). In the New York City Region, it can be...
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Ten Years after Ousting US Navy, Vieques Confronts Contamination
In “Ten Years after Ousting US Navy, Vieques Confronts Contamination” (the Huffington Post’s The World), Maritza Stanchich writes about Vieques’ recent 10-year anniversary of a struggle and the...
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Radio Vieques: From Dream to Reality
Robert Rabin and Viequenses in general have cause to celebrate. Yesterday (Saturday, 29 June, 2013) Radio Vieques engineer, Michael Brown, submitted the last items needed to finalize the process to...
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Art Exhibition—“Albizu: Patriota”
Tonight (July 6, 2013) is the opening of an exhibition—“Albizu: Patriota”—a collective show by 32 Puerto Rican artists in honor of the late Puerto Rican political icon Pedro Albizu Campos. The show...
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Puerto Rico Plans To Protect Bioluminescent Mosquito Bay
Puerto Rico’s environment agency is trying to protect a bioluminescent bay that’s considered one of the brightest natural spots in the world, Fox New Latino reports. Mosquito Bay attracts thousands of...
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Disease and Deception in the Caribbean
In “Disease and Deception in the Caribbean,” Dr. Daniel Colon-Ramos (Department of Cell Biology and the Program in Cellular Neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine) writes that flawed scientific...
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Film: Franklin López’s ¡Vieques Resiste!
Dissident Voice (14 August 2013) recently posted a short film on Vieques—¡Vieques Resiste!—directed and produced by Franklin López. López is a film maker, video activist, and self-professed trouble...
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Radio Vieques Prepares for Regular Programming
On Monday, September 2, 2013, Radio Vieques (RV) will launch its new phase in a special program on 90.1 FM and via www.radiovieques.net between 12:00 noon and 4:00pm in Vieques, Puerto Rico. There...
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U.S. Accused of Human Rights Violations in Puerto Rico
The National Lawyers Guild and other groups have filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the U.S. government in a case involving Puerto Ricans living in the island...
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Puerto Rico National Guard To Clean up Vieques
A group of 30 experienced Puerto Rico National Guard engineers has launched a cleanup effort focused on areas of ecological and tourist interest on the island of Vieques, which the U.S. Navy used as a...
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Explosive Found Near Flamenco Beach in Culebra, Puerto Rico
And some people still wonder why Viequenses were/are so adamant about getting the U.S. to conduct a thorough clean-up of the island. . . Police in Puerto Rico say an underwater military explosive...
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Puerto Rico Debates Who Put Out the Lights in Mosquito Bay
This article by Lizette Alvarez appeared inThe New York Times. Sitting on a small boat in Mosquito Bay, a tapestry of stars above him, Mark Martin, a field researcher, scooped water into a canister....
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The search for unique: Caribbean’s unrivaled beaches
Steve Blount (USA TODAY) gives an alternative list of “best beaches” with white sand and turquoise waters. He says, that “Sometimes it’s just one thing that seals the memory, a personality trait that...
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“Festejo, disfraz y sustento”: Cultural Festival, Exhibition, and Film...
The project called “Festejo, disfraz y sustento: el arte y la creatividad colectiva” [Celebration, Costume, and Sustenance: Art and Collective Creativity] aims to present visual, artistic and poetic...
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El Blok: New Boutique Hotel in Vieques, Puerto Rico
The Caribbean Journal staff report that the neighborhood of Esperanza on the island of Vieques— just off the east coast of mainland Puerto Rico—now has a new boutique hotel, El Blok. The article...
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ICS Lecture—“Rhythms that Link Islands: Calypso and Steel Drums between the...
As part of its Conferencias Caribeñas 15, the Institute of Caribbean Studies of the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP), invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture...
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