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In 1963, María Velázquez moved to Vieques with her husband, Carmelo Félix Matta. In the coming decades, María and Carmelo would become the protagonists of various land rescues in Vieques that would challenge the US Navy control over Vieques's…

Following the recommendation of a doctor, María and Carmelo decided to move to Florida.

In 1981, María and Carmelo returned to Vieques.

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María discusses the origins of Villa Borinquen.

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…

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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…

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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Carlos Zenón explains that the Vieques Struggle did not begin with the fishermen protest of 1978, but with the expropriation of Vieques’s lands and homes by the US Navy in the 1940s. At the age of four, Zenón witnessed the arrival of the US Navy and…

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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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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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