Vieques 4 1998

Dublin Core

Title

Vieques 4 1998

Date

1998

Description

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 Rodriguez Cristobal, about how there are still bombs in the bomb shooting zone and want to know what the Vieques government did with the money they got from the United States. The group speaks of education and Edwin’s mom says she thinks that the goal is to have all of Vieques’ population migrate away, others agree. Later Ismael Guadalupe is interviewed and he speaks of Le Guillou and the history of Vieques’ founding and how the Navy arrived. Ismael speaks of hospital privatizations and other countries that use the island as bomb shooting practicing areas, he speaks of the Caribbean Justice and Peace Project with Wanda Colon and about how the case of Vieques was presented to congress and the United Nations.

Format

video

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Interviewee

Edwin Melendez

Jessy Ventura

Ismael Guadalupe

Files

Collection

1998 - Present

Tags

Angel Rodríguez Cristobal, Anthropocene, Antonio Rivera Rodríguez, Arrest of 21, Arrests, Baltasar Corrada del Río, Bill Clinton, Biopolitics, Bombing, Cancer, Cancer and Navy, Cancer studies, Carlos Romero Barcelo, Challenges, Comando del Atlantico, Comando Sur, Comite de Viequenses Unidos, Comite Pro Defensa de Vieques, Comite Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques, Controlling access to the base, Cruzada Pro Rescate de Vieques, Cuban Revolution, Culebra, Defense of Fiestas Patronales, Departamento de Recursos naturales, Dialogues PR government, Environmental destruction, Expropriations 1940s, Fall of Berlin Wall vs. Vieques divided territory, Family in social movement, Fight against new Expropriations in 1964, Fishermen struggle 1978, Fishing in Vieques, Foundation of Vieques (LeGuillou 1823), French Families in Vieques, Giving Birth in Vieques vs. Fajardo, Granada Invasion 1983, Health problems (Vieques), Health services in Vieques, Heavy Metals Pollution (Arsenic and nitrites), Higher education in Vieques, Hijos Ausentes de Vieques, History of Vieques resistance, Independence of Puerto Rico, Ismael Guadalupe, Junta de Calidad Ambiental, Lack of Job opportunities for fighters (political profiling), Lack of recreation for Youth, Land transfer, Leftist organizations need to prioritize Vieques, Medical services in Vieques, Military facilities and lack of economic development, Military facilities in Puerto Rico, Movimiento Pro Independencia, NATO in Vieques, Negotiations PR government, Nomos of the earth, Panama, Pedro Albizu Campos, Pedro Rossello Gonzalez, Plan Dracula, Political performance, Political repression against demilitarization, Pollution, Privatization (Telefónica), Radar, Recreation in the base for Youth, Resistance, Ronald Dellums, Ruben Berrios, Saint Thomas and Santa Cruz, Statehood, Strategic use of Vieques in the Caribbean, Strategies, Struggle for demilitarization in USA, Toxic waste, Tyddings Project 1936: independence of Puerto Rico in exchange for Vieques and Culebra, UN and Vieques, Unemployment, Vieques after Culebra's demilitarization (1975), Vieques and Congress, Vieques clean up, Vieques Development, Vieques development before Navy, Vieques es el Guanica de 1998, Vieques part of Puerto Rican archipelago, Vieques population control, Vieques Youth, Vito Marcantonio, WWII

Citation

“Vieques 4 1998,” Vieques Struggle: A Digital Video Archive, accessed January 30, 2025, https://vieques.iac.gatech.edu/items/show/310.