Puerto Rican film claims the Navy turned Vieques into a cancer hotspot

Puerto Rican film claims the Navy turned Vieques into a cancer hotspot

For over six decades, the Navy occupied the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, off the coast of the main territory, to carry out military exercises. When it finally left in 2003, locals alleged that it failed to follow proper cleaning protocols, either opting for dangerous open detonation to get rid of old bombs or simply leaving behind munitions and toxic waste. “The U.S. has paid no attention to the issue,” filmmaker Glorimar Marrero in Spanish c…