The Cause of Vieques was a civic, social, peaceful, and national movement that emerged in Puerto Rico during the Navy-Vieques protests. The movement was pivotal to the United States Navy abandoning of its facilities on the Puerto Rican island-cause followed by those who supported the cease of the bombing target practices in Vieques.
During the 1940s the U.S. Navy purchased about 4/5 parts of Vieques grounds by compensated land expropriation, and then later started using them as bombing target practice grounds.
In 1999, the death of David Sanes triggered the Navy-Vieques protests: a countless series of protests that began in Puerto Rico against the U.S. military use of the island-municipality.
The Cause of Vieques movement emerged a few months later after the beginning of the protests and played a pivotal point in the abandoning of the military facilities on Vieques by the U.S. Navy.
Points of views among the supporters
According to polls done on the course of the protests by El Nuevo Dia, the majority of Puerto Ricans supported the cause. All those who supported it, also supported the immediate cease-and-desist of the allegedly live-bomb target practices. However, there was a set of different points of views among them: [1] (http://www.endi.com)
Allow non-live bombing target practices
as necessary
for a few days, every few years
as necessary
but not in consequent years
Cease-and-desist of all bombing target practices
immediate leave of U.S. military presence and return all expropriated territories
and allow other U.S. military exercises
and leave all expropriated territories to U.S. military
Teófilo José Jaime María Le Guillou, who is recognized as the founder of Vieques as a town, arrived in 1823, marking a period of economic and social change for the island of Vieques.
Young Milivi Adams, a Vieques native who was a cancer patient, became the protester's symbol child in their quest to liberate the island of the bombings.
Vieques' small airport is the hub of Vieques Air Link, which flies to Fajardo and San Juan in mainland Puerto Rico as well as St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands from there.
The Cause of Vieques was a protest movement that emerged in Puerto Rico during the Navy-Vieques protests.
The Cause of Vieques is also used in reference to the cause followed by those who supported the cease of the bombing target practices in Vieques.
The Cause of Vieques movement emerged a few months later after the beginning of the protests and played a pivotal point in the abandoning of the military facilities on Vieques by the U.S. Navy.
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