Vieques 1999: When Puerto Rico Kicked Out the Navy

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07/07/22 • 40 min

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Vieques is a little island, 8 miles from mainland Puerto Rico. From the 1920s until 2003, 2/3rds of the island was occupied by the US Navy. Day after, day, the people of Vieques lived with bombs falling every day. Until they had enough.
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https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/vieques-island-protests https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/puerto-ricans-force-united-states-navy-out-vieques-island-1999-2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_in_Vieques,_Puerto_Rico https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/7/1/puerto-ricos-vieques-still-reels-from-decades-of-us-navy-bombing
https://theworld.org/stories/2019-07-16/puerto-rico-s-vieques-island-ousted-us-navy-now-fight-s-against-airbnb
https://projectpulso.org/2022/01/26/navy-bombings/
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