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...even on the more internationalist side of that equation. That much was underscored, too, in the fact that Bush used some important media time during his EU summit day to trawl for Latino votes back home by ordering the Navy to close down its bombing range of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
After years of local resistance - and a few months of high-profile protests and arrests - the U.S. has decided to end Navy training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
...also a New Yorker. Fast forward 10 years to the summer of 1989. I was working the overnight shift at CBS network radio and living in Spanish Harlem, in the heart of the Puerto Rican barrio. One steaming summer night at 4 a.m., on my way to work, I rolled down the window of the cab and heard ranchera music blaring out of a boom box. A small group of Mexicanos was singing along with a melancholy tune. My sleepy eyes popped open, my head shot out the window, and I gave a little grito. I was witnessing history...
...broker, but his army of critics charges that he has not outgrown a tendency to play the crassest kind of racial politics. Case in point: the convoluted New York imbroglio this month in which Sharpton was reported to have offered to endorse Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer--a Puerto Rican who's trying to win the Democratic mayoral nomination by building a coalition of Latino and black voters--if and only if Ferrer backed a slate of black candidates Sharpton favored. The New York Times reporter who wrote the story, Sharpton says, left out the fact that his list...
...TIME.com: The Puerto Rican government claims the exercises and bombs have poisoned the island?s water and caused various health problems in islanders. Is the Navy at all sympathetic to these concerns...