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On April 14, 1989, US Marshalls tried to execute an eviction order from Federal Judge Lafitte against Carmelo, María and their family in their home at Villa Borinquen. Carmelo first tried to resist the eviction with the power of media, by having a…

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Carlos Zenon speaks of the Puerto Rican administration and how they do not have a governor, rather someone who administrates federal funds. He then goes into detail explaining Plan A and Plan B and how the US threatened to take away their government…

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Between 1947 and 1950, the US Navy acquired 4,340 acres of Vieques land to expand its military facilities during the Cold War.

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Edwin Melendez and his mother speak about cancer in Vieques, about his cancer and they show pictures of cancer victims in Vieques. They speak about the process of becoming a Viequense and being born in Vieques. The group speaks of the arrest of Angel…

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As a consequence of the evictions conducted by the US Navy in Vieques, María Velázquez's family had to emigrate to Saint Croix. She explains that she was born not in Vieques but instead in Saint Croix, and she later grew up in New York. She narrates…

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María explains that the activists involved in the land rescue of Villa Borinquen embraced the slogan "Haciendo a Vieques Más Grande," or "Making Vieques larger."

The US Navy attempted to expel all Viequenses from their land: "Project V-C, secretly pushed forth by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the White House during 1958-1964, was originally an attempt to expropriate the complete Puerto Rican islands of…

Viequenses attempted to rescue the area of "El Cerca'o de Coco" but the US Navy intervened and ended the land rescue. Years later Viequenses were successful in this land rescue and the area became known as Villa Borinquen.
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