Puerto Rico News » Vieques News Puerto Rico » Vieques » People: Puerto Rican film asserts the Navy turned Vieques into a cancer hotspot
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over six decades, the Navy occupied the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, off the coast of the main territory, to carry out ...
News Puerto Rico » Vieques » People: Protest shuts down ferry rides between Puerto Rico and Vieques, snarling travel plans
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A protest over a rate increase forced Puerto Rico’s government on Wednesday to cancel ferry rides between the U.S. territory and the tiny island of Vieques that is popular ...
News Puerto Rico » Vieques » People: 3 days on Vieques, Puerto Rico, where the water glows
Vieques (pronounced Vee-ek-ez) is located about 8 miles off the east coast of mainland Puerto Rico, one of two inhabited sister islands – the other is Culebra – easily accessible by ferry or small ...
News Puerto Rico » Vieques » People: Police detain seven people on Vieques in rock-throwing incident
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Police detained seven people on Vieques in a rock-throwing incident near U.S. Navy land at the end of a first week of bombing exercises, authorities said. One of the ...
News Puerto Rico » Vieques » People: Vieques on the Verge
It had all looked so simple from the plane—the Puerto Rican island of Vieques stretching out below like some outsize plantain, all lush green on the west end where the U.S. Navy stored bombs until ...
News Puerto Rico » Vieques » People: Puerto Rico’s Old Military Wounds Are Being Reopened
The sight from Puerto Rico’s southern coast was surreal. Off the usually tranquil shores of Arroyo and Guayanilla, beachgoers watched in disbelief as helicopters whirred and the USS Iwo Jima, an ...
News Puerto Rico » Vieques » People: The U.S. dropped millions of pounds of bombs on Vieques Island for over 60 years; Decades later, residents face a 26% higher cancer risk
Lying roughly seven miles off the east coast of Puerto Rico sits its smaller sister island Vieques. This tropical paradise attracts tourists and wealthy individuals who scoop up land to build palatial ...