The Devastating Effects of Militarization on Puerto Rico and Her People: How One Activist is Promoting Health Justice for Vieques and Culebra

EPISODE: The Devastating Effects of
Militarization on Puerto Rico and Her People. How One
Activist is Promoting Health Justice for Vieques &
Culebra.  


GUEST: Monisha Rios, Puerto Rican
psychologist, social worker and disabled US veteran. Founder
and director of Centro Solidario de Puerto Rico.


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BACKGROUND:


The U.S. has been overtly and covertly intervening in Puerto
Rico's internal affairs since 1898. Like the Spanish,
British, Dutch, and the French, the U.S. understood the strategic
value of the Puerto Rican archipelago, which would give their
expanding empire a military advantage toward enforcing the Monroe
Doctrine, thereby securing its established intent to dominate the
Western Hemisphere. 


A new wave of militarization began soon after the change of
colonial ownership, the implications of which would devastate the
island municipalities of Culebra and Vieques. Culebra was
militarized in 1901 and expelled the Navy in 1975. Vieques
was militarized in 1941 and expelled the Navy in 2003.





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