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	Vieques, Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Teófilo José Jaime María Le Guillou, who is recognized as the founder of Vieques as a town, arrived in 1823, marking a period of economic and social change for the island of Vieques.
		During the 1940s the United States military purchased 60% of the land area of Vieques including farms and sugar plantations from locals, who in turn were left with no employment options and many were forced to emigrate to mainland Puerto Rico and to St.
		Young Milivi Adams, a Vieques native who was a cancer patient, became the protester's symbol child in their quest to liberate the island of the bombings (On the morning of November 17, 2002, she died).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vieques,_Puerto_Rico (991 words)

	Vieques, Puerto Rico
		Vieques was founded in 1843 by Francisco Saínz.
		It was annexed to Puerto Rico in 1854.
		The island is located between Puerto Rico and St. Thomas (USVI), and is separated from the southeast coast of Puerto Rico by approximately 8 miles of sea, although if you are taking a ferry from Fajardo the distance will be 18 miles.
	welcome.topuertorico.org /city/vieques.shtml (739 words)

	The GULLY \| Americas \| Vieques: Puerto Rico Under Fire
		Protesters assert that the bombing and military maneuvers on Vieques are a danger to its residents.
		San Juan, Puerto Rico, one of the biggest and best natural harbors in the Caribbean, was for centuries a strategic port for ships going back and forth to Spain's gloriously golden Latin American colonies.
		Even if Puerto Rico were a sovereign nation, with a Caribbean democracy riddled with U.S. yes-men corrupted by a century of political, legal, and economic colonialism, the U.S. would have to jump through far more, and more expensive hoops.
	www.thegully.com /essays/puertorico/000503vieques.html (1160 words)

	FOR- Programs - Puerto Rico - Vieques Update
		This was demonstrated in a Puerto Rico Department of Health publication (November, 1997), which showed that Vieques had a 27% higher cancer rate than the rest of Puerto Rico from 1985 to 1989.
		Infant mortality in Vieques is decreasing more slowly than in Puerto Rico: in Puerto Rico a 71% decrease was observed when infant mortality rates from 1960-1964 were compared to 1990-1994, while it only decreased 27% in Vieques during the same 30 years.
		She coordinated the professional group assigned by the Puerto Rican legislature to study the incidence and causes of cancer in Vieques in 2001.
	www.forusa.org /programs/puertorico/viequesupdate0602.html (2524 words)

	Vieques, Puerto Rico Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vieques, Puerto Rico is a beautiful but controversial island.
		During the 1940s the United States military took away farms and territory from locals, who in turn were forced to emigrate to mainland Puerto Rico and to St.
		Vieques' small airport is the hub of Vieques Air Link, which flies to many cities in mainland Puerto Rico from there.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vieques__puerto_rico.html (751 words)

	UTAP-Proj-Vieques, Puerto Rico
		Tensions between residents and the military came to a head in 1979 during a protest by the Vieques Fisherman's Association, whose livelihood was directly affected by bombing and water maneuvers on the eastern end of the island.
		Bill HR 2159, The Vieques Land Transfer Act of 1995, requires the Secretary of the United States Navy to return 8,000 acres of land to the municipality of Vieques.
		The overarching goal of the Vieques project was the provision of a development strategy for the 8,000 acres of Navy inhabited land that would ensure citizen participation in the planning process and protect Viequenses from environmental, social and economic harm.
	www.arch.columbia.edu /UTAP/HTML/projects/Vieques/Vieques.html (701 words)

	About Puerto Rico . . .Vieques
		Tap water in Vieques is brought in by pipes from the Â“mainlandÂ”.
		After considerable pressure from different groups in Vieques, in Puerto Rico, and from leading civil rights activists throughout the world, the U.S. Navy was ordered by presidential decree to relocate its practices elsewhere on May 1, 2003.
		Vieques is a favorite vacation spot for many tourists from the rest of Puerto Rico also.
	www.dollarman.com /puertorico/vieques.html (427 words)

	Navy Blues - Vieques, Puerto Rico - BootsnAll.com
		Vieques is the thirty year old living in her parents' basement with no plans on moving out and no pressure to do so.
		The Navy argues that the Vieques testing range is necessary for training the Marines and the Navy because of its proximity to the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico and because the topography of the island is suited for amphibious landing situations, sea to land firing ranges, and air combat maneuvers.
		Or, maybe both Puerto Rico and Vieques will lose political stability and fall into the kind of internal violence and economic hardship that so damaged Haiti and the DR; there may already be signs of this happening in Puerto Rico's poorest neighborhoods.
	www.bootsnall.com /travelstories/na/mar04pr.shtml (2350 words)

	Congress Letter re Puerto Rico Vieques
		Vieques is an island municipality of Puerto Rico, six miles southeast of the main island.
		People on Vieques, environmental and health experts throughout Puerto Rico, relate the abnormally high cancer rate to the environmental degradation caused by U.S. Navy and NATO bombing (the Navy "rents" Vieques to NATO and other countries for bombing practice) on this small Caribbean Island.
		The Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques has begun to articulate, with the assistance of experts from Puerto Rican universities and international organizations, a vision for the future social and economic development of a Vieques freed from the Navy.
	www.prop1.org /protest/puerto_rico/9906pr01.htm (1467 words)

	Guest Comment
		The accidental death of a Puerto Rican civilian, employed by the Navy as a security guard, during an American live-fire exercise on Vieques on April 19, 1999, moved Puerto Rico to the front burner of the Clinton-Gore White House.
		Anything that was a concern in Puerto Rico was likely to become a big concern to Bill Clinton for two reasons: (1) Governor Rossello is an official in Al Gore’s presidential campaign and (2) Hillary Clinton needs lots of Puerto Rican votes in her N.Y. Senate race.
		The subject of Vieques (and Puerto Rico statehood efforts) were the subject of a January National Security Council meeting, according to the President of Puerto Rico’s Senate, Charlie Rodriguez.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment050500b.html (1153 words)

	General Synod XXIII Resolutions: To end the presence of the United States Navy in the municipality of Vieques, Puerto ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since 1941, Vieques, an island municipality of Puerto Rico, three-fourths of which is occupied by the United States Navy, has been used for military exercises and aerial bombardment, thus destroying the environment, ecology, health, and life of its people.
		Despite the nearly unanimous reaction of the people of Vieques and Puerto Rico to cease the presence of the Navy in Vieques, the United States government refuses to stop its bombing and to withdraw its military force.
		This resolution, given the new government administrations of the United States and Puerto Rico, urges the United Church of Christ to strengthen its support on behalf of the cessation of the presence of the United States Navy in the Municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
	www.ucc.org /synod/resolutions/res22.htm (1231 words)

	Vieques Island Puerto Rico. Hotel, Rentals, Real Estate, Isla Vieques PR Photos
		Isla de Vieques is one of the Spanish Virgin Islands of Puerto Rico.
		There is more to Isla de Vieques than beautiful beaches; this small island is rich in history, it houses the last Spanish fort built in the Americas.
		Vieques is populated by friendly people that have hearts as colorful as the flowers that abound all over the island.
	www.viequestravelguide.com (626 words)

	Historia de Vieques, Puerto Rico
		Vieques last Taino chiefs, Cacimar and Yaureibo, led a series of raids against Spanish positions on the east coast of Puerto Rico in 1514.
		Directed from Puerto Rico by Santiago Iglesias Pantín and assisted by labor activist and leading Puerto Rican feminist Luisa Capetillo, the Vieques workers took part in a Puerto Rico wide strike that erupted in violence in several towns in the years 1915 to 1919.
		In the 1940's Vieques faced another grave moment in her history that, like the Spanish conquest, African slavery and the exploitation suffered on the sugar plantations and mills, would present a challenge to the very survival of the island and its people: the US Navy's expropriation of 26,000 of Vieques' 33,000 acres of land.
	www.vieques-island.com /board/navy/rabin.html (5972 words)

	Puerto Rico Journey: The Eastern Islands, Vieques
		Vieques is the larger of the two eastern islands, 21 miles long and 4 miles wide.
		Vieques can be reached by ferry from Playa de Fajardo or small plane from the airport south of Fajardo.
		Puerto Rico and the eastern islands are in the path of many tropical hurricanes.
	www.iit.edu /~PR/prvie.html (1121 words)

	Vieques : Puerto Rico's Little Island
		Vieques covers a total of 33,000 acres, 22,605 acres of which are currently occupied by the United States Navy.
		We Puerto Ricans have been asking for decades for the removal of the Navy, whose presence has caused serious ecological, commercial, archaeological, tourism and health damages to the Puerto Rican population.
		Given the stoppage of naval exercises by Puerto Rican militants who believe in civil disobedience, the Navy moved its exercises for a few short weeks to the coast of the United States.
	www.preb.com /apuntes5/viequese.htm (519 words)

	The GULLY \| Puerto Rico \| News, opinion, with a Vieques focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A dog-eat-dog improvisational poetry contest remakes the myth of Puerto Rico, and tweaks the tail of cultural imperialism.
		Puerto Rican queers embody, in the flesh, the illegal status of their homeland in the world—like the people of Vieques.
		The Pentagon's stubborn demand to bomb Vieques raises questions of Puerto Rico's status vis-a-vis the United States, and why the U.S. is still exercising what amounts to the conquerors' droit du seigneur.
	www.thegully.com /essays/puertorico/completepuerto.html (530 words)

	US Navy Bombing Resumes on Vieques
		VIEQUES, Puerto Rico –– U.S. Navy planes began dropping inert bombs Monday on the firing range here for the first time since October, as military police handcuffed and detained five women who entered Navy land.
		Maria de Lourdes Santiago, vice president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), left, raises her handcuffed arms after being detained with four other women from the PIP by military police for trespassing on U.S. Navy land in Vieques, Puerto Rico Monday, April 1, 2002.
		Military exercises began Monday on Vieques where protests have continued since a civilian guard was killed by off-target bombs in 1999.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0401-05.htm (894 words)

	FOR- Programs - Puerto Rico - Vieques Update
		When civil disobedience camps in Vieques prompted the Navy to shell Cape Wrath in northern Scotland in March 2000, local activists protested, declaring solidarity with people in Vieques, the need to protect a seabird colony, and opposition to bombing in Iraq.
		A naval ship sunk only 900 feet from Vieques’ shores was used in atomic tests in the Pacific, according to two Puerto Rican senators who in May called for an investigation into the risks to health and the environment posed by the ship.
		Their worries are reinforced by a recent allocation of additional federal funds to Vieques, made with no democratic consultation of the island’s residents.
	www.forusa.org /programs/puertorico/pr_update_0602-1.html (1134 words)

	Vieques, Puerto Rico
		Vieques was used for naval gunfire support and air-to-ground ordnance training from the 1940's until May 1, 2003, when the Navy ceased all military operations on the island and transferred its property on the eastern side of the island to the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior (DOI).
		About 8,100 acres of land on the western side of the island, which had been used for the munitions storage, was transferred to DOI, the municipality of Vieques and the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust on May 1, 2001.
		Working with EPA and the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board (EQB), the Navy will conduct an environmental investigation of its previously-owned property under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to determine what cleanup actions are needed.
	www.epa.gov /region02/vieques (308 words)

	Vieques (Puerto Rico)
		Vieques was founded in 1843 by Francisco Sai'nz.
		The island is located between Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, and is separated from the southeast coast of Puerto Rico by approximately 8 miles of sea, although if you are taking a ferry from Fajardo the distance will be 18 miles.
		Privious version was used last year at Vieques' beaches at the beginning of the US Navy conflict probably due to ignorance of the existence of the present one.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pr-vq.html (487 words)

	Vieques Water Sports - Vieques Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vieques is a great destination for water sports activities, sailing, diving, snorkeling, fishing and beach bumming are all popular Vieques pastimes.
		Vieques is about 55 square miles and has a total population of around 10,000.
		If you are looking for someting to do on Vieques, try some of these Vieques activities websites.
	www.viequeswatersports.com (182 words)

	Vieques Island, Puerto Rico USA
		Vieques Island lies seven miles east of Puerto Rico and can be easily reached by ferry or small plane.
		Vieques is one of the more ideal ecotourist destinations in the Caribbean It also hosts many northerners who choose to winter or retire here.
		Vieques attractions center around the beaches and the worlds most brilliant bioluminescent bay.
	www.elyunque.com /vieques.html (218 words)

	Vieques Travel Information Portal
		The Vieques For Rent by Owner section has the largest listing of the House and Villa rentals available to the traveler.
		Vieques' Bio Bay is one of the finest bioluminescent bays in the world.
		There is a general tour of Puerto Rico, the main island, and links to sites that will provide many more enticements to visit that beautiful island.
	www.enchanted-isle.com (436 words)

	Vieques Caribbean Travel Information Site - Puerto Rico
		Welcome to the Vieques Island Tour and Travel Guide, with the tourist information you need to plan your trip to Vieques: restaurant reviews, hotel and travel information, photo tour and much more.
		This tiny island is just off the coast of Puerto Rico and is one of the least crowded in the Caribbean.
		Vieques, or la Isla Nena, as it is sometimes called, is a wonderful place to take your next Caribbean vacation.
	www.islavieques.com (490 words)

	Adventure : Vieques, Puerto Rico : Fine Living
		During the 1940s, the United States Navy began using a major chunk of this small Caribbean island off the east coast of Puerto Rico for military maneuvers and bombing practice.
		Many Vieques residents were forced to abandon their homes, leaving behind a diminished local population and, more recently, a small-scale tourism industry focusing on a collection of gorgeous beaches that had not been placed off-limits by the Navy.
		Vieques lies about 8 miles off the east coast of Puerto Rico, accessible by air from San Juan or by ferry from the port town of Fajardo, about an hour's drive east of San Juan.
	www.fineliving.com /fine/adventure/article/0,1663,FINE_1403_3846228,00.html (380 words)

	The Injustice at Vieques, Puerto Rico, and the Ethics of Aesthetic Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I'm outraged that for decades the Navy has subjected the residents of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, to daily bombardment.
		It's a national shame that many men, women and children -citizens the government is supposed to "protect"- now have cancers and devastating illnesses because of the Navy's use of napalm and depleted uranium.
		As the wife of a Puerto Rican, I care deeply for the land and people of that beautiful island.
	members.aol.com /deozarks/myhomepage/Sobre-Vieques.htm (339 words)

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