At The Vieques Crossroads All about Puerto Rico, U.S.-Puerto Rico colonial history past and present, and the struggle to evict the U.S. Navy from Vieques. Any day now he'll free Vieques. Bush's Reign of Milk and Honey Republicans are giving queers, blacks, and Puerto Ricans the honey treatment, while Democrats get stung. The power of the vote, and Puerto Rico's surrealistic political landscape of colonial power and back door influence. As the U.S. Navy launches a second round of bombing exercises in the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, anti-Navy activists there are finding allies in Okinawa, Japan.
Activist statements reflect the political landscape.
The Navy's closing of the beaches has been a disaster for Viequenses, both culturally and economically. Clinton's Presidential Directive Count for yourself the ways Vieques is betrayed. The Rock and the Hard Place Activists working to free Vieques have to fight not only the U.S. Navy, but their own corrupt Puerto Rican government. Find out what. The Gully, 2001.