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...Navy spokesperson, Commander Karin Jeffries, said yesterday that the Navy has supported 50 economic development programs in Vieques. Jeffries said, however, that these programs have had limited success because they lacked the full cooperation of the Puerto Rican government...
...particular, the rate of cancer on the island in the 1980s was 27 percent higher than that of Puerto Rico as a whole, according to the Puerto Rican government commission...
...Perl-Matanzo said, many Puerto Ricans--including himself--do not therefore consider themselves U.S. citizens...
...activists like Perl-Matanzo, the Vieques situation also raises concerns about issues of Puerto Rican political rights. Puerto Ricans, though they are American citizens, have no representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections...
...forum, which will take place on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Science Center D, also features Manuel Rodriguez Orellana, the Puerto Rican Independence Party's special envoy to Washington...