Full Coverage: Puerto Rico

27.07.2007 Although there is disagreement over how Puerto Rico should be governed -- as a U.S. territory, U.S. state, or independent nation -- there is consensus that Puerto Ricans themselves must play a major role in deciding the island's fate.

21.07.2006 Coming from Washington DC, where discussions about gentrification always abound, I was surprised to find a similar discourse hundreds of miles south on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.

22.08.2005 O Comitê Pró-Resgate e Desenvolvimento de Vieques (CPRDV) denuncia a intenção da Marinha de Guerra dos Estados Unidos e a cumplicidade das agências do governo relacionadas com o processo de descontaminação na ilha, de reiniciar a detonação, a céu aberto, de bombas.

25.05.2004 Since the early days of World War II, the U.S. Navy had used Puerto Rico’s offshore island municipality of Vieques as target practice. A year after US Navy’s exit, Vieques tourism is booming.

31.12.2003 SAN JUAN, Dec 31 (IPS) -- Now that the U.S. Navy is gone, residents of the Puerto Rican island-town of Vieques face pressing environmental problems.

18.08.2003 Since 1999, four districts in Paksitan's predominantly rural province of Balochistan in have been working to address the education challenges facing children, especially girls. Where no schools existed within walking distance of many villages, 80 have been built.
Read more about how community commitment has brought education to girls in rural Pakistan.

05.11.2002 Education for community empowerment leads to social change--at least that's the formula that is working in a Puerto Rican urban slum where residents now have new housing, services, and a community center for young people.

21.08.2002 Rafael Pagan Santini, former director of the Puerto Rico Community Network for Clinical Research on AIDS, pleaded innocent to charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and fabrication of evidence stemming from a 1999 embezzlement trial. Santini and his lawyer are currently charged with inventing evidence that some of the institutions money was spent on purchasing drugs from Mexico. In the earlier trial 12 others were convicted of diverting $2.2 million dollars of federal money for personal use of political campaigns.

31.07.2001 Puerto Rican hopes that a local referendum would speed up the exit of the United States navy from Vieques island were rebuffed yesterday by a White House spokesman.

27.04.2001 A judicial ruling permitting ongoing U.S. Navy bombing practice on Vieques Island largely ignored the health and environmental arguments made by Puerto Ricans to halt the bombing.

25.01.2001 A look at the history of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island, where U.S. Navy maneuvers are set to recommence, despite widespread popular protest.

16.01.2001 The United States Navy has poisoned the Puerto Rican island-town of Vieques and ruined local agriculture, says a newly-released scientific study.

13.11.2000 Voters in Puerto Rico have elected the island's first female governor and dealt a blow to the pro-statehood New Progressive Party.

13.11.2000 As the United States waits to see who will be its next president, another hotly contested race has ended in Puerto Rico with voters electing the US commonwealth island's first female governor and dealing a blow to the pro-statehood forces.

12.10.2000 The US Navy is poised to drop up to 830 dummy bombs on an island seven miles southeast of Puerto Rico as part of a fresh wave of military exercises, according to Puerto Rican authorities.

14.07.2000 The United Nations faces calls from its officials to urge the United States to pull troops out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques and clean up the military training "impact area".

19.05.2000 Just over a week after US law enforcement authorities cleared protesters off of the Navy firing range on the island-town of Vieques, some have already returned and been arrested.

08.05.2000 Scores of anti-bombing protesters arrested in a US Navy zone last week plan to continue their demonstrations by re-entering off-limits military testing grounds.

04.05.2000 The stand-off continued between US Navy ships and protesters opposed to the use of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a bombing range.

07.05.1999 A civil disobedience campaign has been launched in Puerto Rico to challenge US military use of the island.