Bernard Hopkins’ recent 12th round knockout of Puerto Rican boxing champion Tito Trinidad for the middleweight title was something of a metaphor for the effects of September 11 on the Vieques movement. Perhaps more than metaphor: Trinidad, a champion of the Vieques movement, wrote Paz (“Peace”) on his armbands, while Hopkins sported a U.S. flag […]
Juan Giusti-Cordero
Juan Giusti-Cordero is a history professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.
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Vieques Wins The Eleventh Round
“If the U.S. prisoners downed in the spy plane in China had been treated half as badly as we were, the United States would have declared war,” says, Eduardo Bhatia, the soft-spoken 2000 candidate for the mayoralty of San Juan, who was one of 185 persons arrested by Marine Corps MP’s for civil disobedience last […]