US Navy occupation of Puerto Rican island of Vieques: bomb testing causing major population displacement and high levels of contamination. Vieques remains a highly toxic place to live ( high levels of PCBsm napalm, uranium, unexploded bombs, mercury, arsenic etc). Furthermore, Study results from 2000 reveal that the cancer rate on Vieques, also called La Isla Nena (the Small Island), was nearly 27 percent higher than on Puerto Rico’s big island. The island also lacks an hospital to treat illnesses such as asthma and cancer that may be attributed to the military’s former bombing activity. Nowadays, the island is facing another form of invasion and injustice: land grabbing and gentrification by the rich.
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