Topic - Vieques

Vieques, in full Isla de Vieques, is an island–municipality of Puerto Rico in the northeastern Caribbean, part of an island grouping sometimes known as the Spanish Virgin Islands. Vieques is part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and retains strong influences from 400 years of Spanish presence in the island. - Source: Wikipedia

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Report: Military cleanup in Puerto Rico islands slow-going

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

In this Sept. 8, 2018 photo, 42-year-old dialysis patient Sandra Medina waits inside a plane at the airport in Vieques, Puerto Rico. After Hurricane Maria hit, authorities began flying kidney patients in Vieques to the Puerto Rican mainland. The storm had ruined the only dialysis center on this tiny island; without treatment, the patients would die. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

A year after Maria, Puerto Rican kidney patients fear death

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This Sept. 8, 2018 photo shows the burial site of Argeo Caraballo at the municipal cemetery in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Argeo, 70, was one of the dialysis patients who died hoping the mobile unit that federal officials purchased to provide dialysis on Vieques would arrive after Hurricane Maria ruined the only dialysis center on this tiny island . &quot;The trips were way too exhausting,&quot; said his daughter, who would travel with her father to the Puerto Rican mainland for his treatments three times a week. The mobile unit remains stuck in California. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Puerto Rico dialysis patients fear death 1 year after Maria

By DANICA COTO - Associated Press

In this Jan. 14, 2016 photo, tourists walk by a horse grazing on the side of the road in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's tiny Vieques island is famed for its scenery and its free-roaming horses. But there are now so many that officials have joined the Humane Society in a campaign to hold down the population with a campaign of contraceptive darts. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Puerto Rico island tackles over-population of horses

By DANICA COTO - Associated Press