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U.S. Navy Humanitarian Mission in Latin America a Smokescreen for New Buildup in Region
8:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America| Politics · Comments Off
29 Apr 2008
I have a healthy cynicism when it comes to the U.S. military, so when this morning I read that the U.S. Navy was sending a warship it used in the Iraq War in 2006 filled with Navy doctors, nurses, dentists, medical technicians, veterinarians and Seabee construction sailors to Guatemala, El Salvador and Peru for a mission called Continuing Promise 2008, a humanitarian mission, you’ll pardon me if I laughed a little.
The mission is supposed to change Latina America’s stereotypes of the U.S.
“It’s amazing sometimes the misperceptions that people have of America and the American people,” said the Boxer’s skipper, Capt. Matt McCloskey. “They think of America as ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ or ‘Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.’
“This is a chance to show them the real America and the real Americans, trying to be good neighbors.”
Except that this one ship comes at the same time the U.S. Navy has decided to set reestablish an entire fleet in the region, and not for a humanitarian mission.
For Mujeres on Vieques Navy Still Haunts
11:45 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Puerto Rico| Women · Comments Off
8 Mar 2007
Puerto Rican women have always been at the forefront of activism around issues concerning their patria. Take Lolita Lebron, for example. And even though the U.S. Navy officially left the Puerto Rican island of Vieques in 2003, females there are still bearing the burden of the Navy bombing exercises and fighting to end that burden and get the U.S to take responsibility for its actions.
Milivy Adams Calderon, dead at age 5 of lymphoma.Liza Torres, lost 17 to leukemia.
Hilda Diaz, 80, killed by kidney disease linked to diabetes.
“Every month, two or three more of us die,” says Navedo, one of 100 residents of Vieques, Puerto Rico, who are seeking compensation from the U.S. Navy for health problems they blame on its 60-year use of the island for bombing practice.
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