Puerto Rico
US dragnet snares Vieques protesters
By Bill Vann, July 7, 2000
Demonstrators gathered July 4 outside the Guaynabo Detention Center in Puerto Rico in protest over the mass roundup of opponents of the US Navy's continuing bombardment of the island of Vieques.
US forces expel protesters from Puerto Rican bombing range
By Gerardo Nebbia, May 5, 2000
In a pre-dawn raid Thursday morning hundreds of US Federal Marshals, FBI agents and military forces forcefully expelled more than 140 protesters who were occupying a US Navy bombing range on the Puert...
US government preparing for mass arrests in Puerto Rico
By Bill Vann, November 6, 1999
The US Justice Department is reportedly sending 300 federal marshals to the small island of Vieques, off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, in an apparent preparation for massive civil disobedience ant...
On George Bush's pardon of anti-Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch
October 26, 1999
Following the publication of an article by Gerardo Nebbia and Martin McLaughlin, "Puerto Rican nationalists to be released after two decades in prison" [9 September 1999], the World Socialist Web Site...
US liberals join right-wing attack on clemency for Puerto Rican nationalists
By Martin McLaughlin, September 27, 1999
In the two weeks since President Bill Clinton granted clemency to 12 members of the Puerto Rican FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation), releasing 11 of them from prison, his decision has been und...
US jets kill civilian during training mission in Puerto Rico
By Paula Da Luz, April 21, 1999
One civilian was killed and four others injured Monday, when two US Marine F-18 jets on a nighttime training mission missed their targets and bombed a communications tower on Vieques Island off the ea...
Huelga general en Puerto Rico contra los despidos en masa
Huelga general en Puerto Rico contra los despidos en masa
