The island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, for decades had all the makings of a tropical paradise, save for one thing: The roar of bombs blasting into the picturesque landscape. Zaida Torres still has that ...

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On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, thousands are commemorating the 10th anniversary of when the U.S. Navy stopped using their home as a bombing range. Since the 1940s, the Navy used nearly ...

If you thought life in the Caribbean was laid back, Vieques, an island municipality to the east of the Puerto Rican mainland, takes it to the extreme. Most of the island looks and feels like the deep ...

Concertina wires still top some of the chain link fences, now hidden by overgrown foliage, in the formerly restricted areas on Vieques. With their peeling paint and warped benches, former sentry posts ...