6. Interview with Edwin Melendez B 1998

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Dublin Core

Title

Date

1998

Format

video

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Melba Miranda

Interviewee

Madre de Edwin (Yolanda Ortiz Ramos)

Edwin Melendez

Jessy Ventura

Files

Collection

1998 - Present

Tags

Bill Clinton, Biopolitics, Births (Giving birth in Vieques vs. Fajardo), Bombings, Cancer, Cancer and Navy, Cancer and pollution, Cancer studies, Edwin Meléndez, Edwin Meléndez (cancer survivor), Environmental destruction, Health problems (Vieques), Health services (Vieques), Heavy Metals Pollution (Arsenic and nitrites), Higher education (Vieques), Lack of economic development, Lack of job opportunities (for fighters), Lack of job opportunities (political profiling), Land transfer, Pollution, Privatization (Telefónica), Radar, Recreation in the base for Youth, slow violence, Toxic waste, Unemployment, Vieques and Congress, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Development, Vieques development (before Navy), Vieques population control, Vieques Youth, Vieques Youth (Lack of recreation), Yolanda Ortiz Ramos

Citation

“6. Interview with Edwin Melendez B 1998,” Vieques Struggle: A Digital Video Archive, accessed October 4, 2024, https://vieques.iac.gatech.edu/items/show/372.