[CPEO-MEF] The Nation Article-The Battle of Vieques

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Forty-six years after Lolita Lebrón and fellow Puerto Rican nationalists 
shot up the House of Representatives, wounding five members in a 
desperate act of defiance, Lebrón, along with Puerto Rican members of 
Congress Luis Gutiérrez and Nydia Velázquez, were arrested for an act of 
nonviolent resistance against the federal government. On May 4, 300 US 
Marshals and FBI agents cleared about 200 demonstrators from a Navy 
bombing range on the embattled island of Vieques. "Puerto Rico has been 
invaded again," said New York City Councilman José Rivera as he was led 
away. For Puerto Ricans on the island and the mainland, this was just 
another display of nineteenth-century gunboat diplomacy.

Article continues at:

http://www.thenation.com/issue/000529/0529morales.shtml
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