The struggle of fishermen in Vieques against the occupation and use of their island for “war games” by the U.S. Navy expresses the deep-felt desire of the Puerto Rican people as a whole to rid themselves of the yoke of imperialism. And it shows that they don’t want their country to be used as a military base for Washington’s counterrevolutionary objectives in the Caribbean.
A direct colony of the U.S., Puerto Rico is exploited economically, oppressed socially, and dominated politically. From the $18 billion invested in the colony’s economy, U.S. business extracts whopping profits while the great majority of Puerto Ricans suffer from massive unemployment and horrendous poverty. And the FBI and other U.S. police agencies savagely repress the just struggles of Puerto Ricans fighting for their freedom.
U.S. Out of Vieques!
Independence for Puerto Rico!