Vol. 3 No. 30

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STANDING WATCH ON THE IMPERIUM: IN PUERTO RICO, THE LEGACY OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR REMAINS UNRESOLVED

Keep Vieques Military Base, Lose Live Fire


PUERTO RICO BECOMING A MILITARY HUB FOR U.S. FORCES

ROOSEVELT ROADS, Puerto Rico -- Bivouacked behind barbed wire, dwarfed by towers of shipping containers, the vanguard of a U.S. Special Forces team is stealthily setting up shop at this naval base in eastern Puerto Rico.

Their assignment: Establish communications, living quarters, aircraft hangars and all the accommodations for an elite force of Green Berets, Navy Seals, Marines and Air Force commandos. So sensitive is their mission that Army Brig. Gen. Richard Parker forbids public briefings on their work.

But the activity signals a significant shift for the Southern Command, the U.S. military group responsible for 12.5 million square miles from Antarctica to the Florida Keys.

Puerto Rico this summer becomes home to the greatest concentration of U.S. military resources in Latin America.

''Puerto Rico will now assume the role that Panama has had for Southern Command for about the last 50 years. Puerto Rico will really become the hub of our operations,'' Southcom commander-in-chief Charles E. Wilhelm, a Marine general, told Congress June 22. -THE MIAMI HERALD

Rossello's Frustration Justified

PUERTO RICO'S REPUBLICAN PARTY CELEBRATES 100 YEARS

ROSSELLO SEEKS U.N. SUPPORT TO COMPEL WASHINGTON TO ACT

PDP Resident Commissioner Primary
Acevedo Vilá vs. Hernández Mayoral

SAN JUAN MAYORAL CAMPAIGN HEATS UP

Rodríguez vs. Santini

VIEQUES

NAVY FIRES BACK OVER VIEQUES

STATESIDE HISPANIC VOTE THREATENS NAVY'S RETENTION OF VIEQUES BOMBING RANGE

ROSSELLO ENDORSES COMMISSION REPORT CALLING FOR NAVY TO LEAVE VIEQUES

CONGRESSIONAL AIDES TO SEE BOMBING RANGE

STOP ENDANGERING AMERICAN CITIZENS
Alcides Ortiz

Puerto Rico Threatens to Sue U.S. Navy

U.S. Panel to Study Use of Vieques as Bomb Target

 VIEQUES CHRONOLOGY

Vieques Editorials

PESQUERA PROMISES ANOTHER STATEHOOD REFERENDUM

Republicans, Democrats Courting Hispanic Vote

 SENATE HEARINGS - TRANSCRIPT

Full Text of All Statements

PUT COMMONWEALTH DEFINITION IN WRITING, LANDRIEU TELLS ACEVEDO-VILÁ

Puerto Rico Leaders Demand To Know Political Status Options; Senators Reply That Some Want 'Free Lunch' Status

Zogby Poll Finds Puerto Rican Voters Rejected Commonwealth, Preferred Statehood In 1998 Plebiscite

Puerto Rico Herald Calls On Congress To Pass Federal Plebiscite Legislation

IMPLICATIONS OF THE PUERTO RICO POLITICAL STATUS PLEBISCITE,
ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Nation's Governors Call on Congress to Pass Puerto Rico Self-Determination Legislation

Rosselló to Congress: Don't Wash Hands of Puerto Rico Status Responsibility

Understanding U.S. Citizenship Issues
Citizens' Educational Foundation

Puerto Rico Searches for Its Future
Myrna Torres, NEWSDAY

RELATED LINKS

Congressional Hispanic Caucus

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

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Under statehood all Puerto Ricans would have been American taxpayers have forked over
wealthier today, and the Commonwealth is costing them $6,000.00 more every year! subsidizing the Puerto Rico Commonwealth, and it's costing them $22,821,918.52 more each and every day of the year!

 

PUERTO RICO SELF-DETERMINATION
Puerto Ricans Earning Their Own Way
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