[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Puerto Rico studies defense role for Roosevelt Roads"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Puerto Rico studies defense role for Roosevelt Roads

By Maria Miranda 
News is My Business
October 13, 2025

New Progressive Party Sens. Nitza Morán and Carmelo Ríos have introduced Senate Bill 286, which directs the Senate’s Federal Relations and Viability of the People’s Mandate Committee, along with the Economic Development, Small Business, Banking, Commerce, Insurance and Cooperativism Committee, to investigate the current condition of the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Ceiba.

The measure seeks to evaluate the feasibility and impact of reusing the site for U.S. national security purposes and to recommend steps that could strengthen Puerto Rico’s federal relations while promoting economic and social development.

According to the bill’s explanatory statement, the Roosevelt Roads base was established in 1943 during World War II and became one of the largest military complexes in the Western Hemisphere. It employed tens of thousands of military and civilian personnel over the decades.

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For the entire article, see
https://newsismybusiness.com/puerto-rico-studies-defense-role-for-roosevelt-roads/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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