La lucha continúa: challenges for a post-Navy Vieques

In recent years the decades-long struggle to stop the U.S. Navy from bombing Vieques, Puerto Rico, end military occupation of most of the island, has made international headlines. However, co n ce rns about Vieques s future o n ce the bombings ce ased and the bases closed hav e aroused less publicity. In the early 1990s some Vieques activists committed themselves to working on the island s greatest challenges, by advocating the Four D s: Demilitarization, Decontamination, Devolution (return of lands), and (community-based, sustainable) Development. This article examines the new phase of the struggle for an economically, s o c i a lly and eco l o g i c a lly healthy Vieques, and its implications for similar struggles elsewhere.