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An environmental organization reported the cutting of close to 200,000 trees on Monte Barinas, an area on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico whose subtropical dry forest is of great ecological value for its now-endangered native vegetation and fauna.



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SAN JUAN – An environmental organization reported the cutting of close to 200,000 trees on Monte Barinas, an area on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico whose subtropical dry forest is of great ecological value for its now-endangered native vegetation ...



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At spring Centro Hispano festival, York community welcomes a new member from Puerto Rico. A woman who came to York just two weeks ago from Puerto Rico is welcomed to the community at the Centro Hispano's spring festival. By MIKE ARGENTO ...

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Recuerdan a David Noriega como un padre ejemplar y abuelo cariñoso - ENDia


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Recuerdan a David Noriega como un padre ejemplar y abuelo cariñoso

Amigos y familiares ofrecen sus condolencias a la familia del abogado y exlegislador en la funeraria Ehret de Río Piedras
Los restos mortales del líder independentista fue expuestos en una funeraria en Río Piedras. (Andre Kang / GFR Media)
Por Marga Pares Arroyo y Michelle Estrada Torres / mpares@elnuevodia.com / michelle.estrada@gfrmedia.com
Como un padre ejemplar, un abuelo cariñoso con sus nueve nietos y un hombre recto y gran servidor público, así recordó Rebeca Noriega a su padre, el fenecido líder independentista David Noriega.
El llamado Fiscal del Pueblo falleció ayer tras una lucha contra el cáncer. Mientras, familiares y amigos despiden a Noriega en la Funeraria Ehret, el cantante Antonio Cabán Vale y su hijo Adeán entonaron con sus guitarras la melodía "Verde Luz" y otras canciones patrióticas.
Hiram Melendez, Francisco Cátala, Juan Agosto Alicea, Samuel Quiñones y otros tantos amigos han acudido a darle un último adiós al conocido al abogado y a mostrarles su solidaridad a la familia.
Decenas de personas llegaron temprano en la mañana de hoy a la funeraria, en Río Piedras, para despedirse del exlegislador.
Mujeres y hombres hicieron fila a la entrada de la Capilla E para firmar en el registro de familiares y amigos y darle el último adiós a Noriega. Su esposa Carmen Costas y su hija Rebecca recibieron las condolencias de todos. 
"Me gusta recordarlo vivo", dijo un hombre apesadumbrado mientras salía de la capilla.
Hoy a las 8:30 p.m. habrá una misa y mañana los restos de Noriega serán trasladados hasta el Colegio de Abogados para luego ser cremados.
Anoche, decenas de amigos y allegados del fiscal del pueblo también  ofrecieron s us condolencias a la familia del abogado y exlegislador.
Costas de Noriega recibió múltiples muestras de apoyo, tanto de parientes suyos como de varios colegas abogados del dirigente independentista y gente de distintos sectores del País.
Le acompañaron sus hijos Javier, David y Rebeca, y sus nueve nietos.
La monoestrellada de triángulo azul celeste descansa sobre el féretro de este puertorriqueño, que luchó toda la vida por la independencia de su patria y que en sus últimos años ayudó a forjar un proyecto político que juntó a personas con diversas ideologías en un solo reclamo de soberanía para la Isla: el Movimiento Unión Soberanista (PIP).
Los abogados Carlos Gallisá, Arturo Hernández, Luis Santini Gaudier, Domingo Emmanuelli y Noel Colón Martínez fueron algunos de los presentes. También estuvieron  la fiscal Phoebe Isales y el líder sindical Ricardo Santos.
Los familiares de Noriega, que se congregaba en la iglesia evangélica Discípulos de Cristo de El Señorial, entonaron  el cántico "Puedo descansar" dentro de la capilla.

"David era íntegro, sencillo y conocía el servicio cristiano. Era una persona muy ejemplar, predicaba con su vida", expresó el pastor de esa iglesia, Osvaldo Delbrey, que mantuvo amistad con Noriega durante más de 10 años.
Arturo Hernández, candidato a gobernador del MUS en las pasadas elecciones, habló del legado de trabajo de su compañero.
"David fue un gladiador hasta el final de sus días. Hay que recordar las grandes luchas que dio por proteger los derechos humanos y constitucionales en Puerto Rico. Logró proyectarse más allá de sectarismos ideológicos. Deja un legado de trabajo, de conciencia, de compromiso, de integridad y de principios", manifestó el expresidente del Colegio de Abogados.

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Vieques Ponders Future 10 Years After Navy Left

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 01, 2013 1:10 PM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Thousands of activists on Wednesday celebrated the anniversary of the U.S. Navy's departure from the Puerto Rican island of Vieques 10 years ago, despite concerns that progress has been slow in cleaning up and developing a place many hoped would flourish.

With the military's departure, the decades-long practice bombing of Vieques stopped, and the island has become one of the more exclusive tourist destinations in the Caribbean.

But the cleanup of the bombing range on an island the Navy once called its "crown jewel" of live-fire training is expected to take another decade, and the mayor of Vieques noted the island of roughly 10,000 people still has no hospital to treat illnesses ranging from cancer to asthma that local residents blame on military activity.

Mayor Victor Emeric said Vieques is battling an unemployment rate of nearly 20 percent and depends on a crippled ferry system that serves as the primary link to the main island of Puerto Rico.

"Time passed and everyone forgot about us," said Emeric, who was born and raised in Vieques. "None of the development that we expected has occurred."

George Withers, a senior fellow with the non-governmental Washington Office on Latin America, recently published a report calling on the U.S. to respond more aggressively to the cleanup and other problems in Vieques. He said the lack of care for ongoing health problems remain big concerns.

"The overall impact on the quality of life for the people of Vieques has not really improved in the 10 years since the Navy left," he said. "They created a toxic legacy on their island."

The island was once a cause celebre, with people such as singer Ricky Martin, actor Edward James Olmos and politician Jesse Jackson joining hundreds of other protesters to demand that the Navy leave Vieques after an errant 500-pound bomb killed a security guard in April 1999.

But after the Navy left on May 1, 2003, interest in helping boost the island's economy waned, said Emeric, blaming both the U.S. and local government.

Even the domain of the island's official government website, which translates to "Vieques Revival," is up for sale. Emeric said many local residents are still trying to find their economic footing as they seek to develop land formerly under naval control.

He dismissed criticism that American investors are the only ones reaping economic benefits, saying, "Many North Americans are here because the Viequenses themselves sold them the land."

Of the 23,000 acres (9,300 hectares) that the Navy began to use for target practice in the early 1940s, 4,000 acres (1,619 hectares) have been awarded to Vieques municipality, 3,100 acres (1,255 hectares) went to the U.S. Department of the Interior and about 800 acres (324 hectares) to the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust.

The Navy has so far cleaned 2,540 acres (1,028 hectares), with the operation expected to run through at least 2025 in one of the Navy's most extensive rehabilitation efforts, budgeted at some $350 million.

"The Navy considers Vieques to be its highest priority in the munitions cleanup program," said Dan Waddill, who is managing the process. "Vieques gets by far the most effort and the highest amount of funding."

Waddill oversees 55 employees who work Monday through Friday cleaning 15,000 acres (6,070 hectares) of the former bombing range, mostly in the island's east. He noted that two-thirds of the workers are from Vieques.

He suggested it will be impossible to find all of the abandoned munition parts.

"We don't expect to leave anything behind that people might come into contact with, but there are layers of safety that prevent that kind of contact just in case something happens to be missed," said Waddill. "When you're covering a large area ... that's just life. Sometimes you don't find everything."

In late March, the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry issued a long-awaited report stating it found no proof that residents had been sickened by substances left behind by bombs and other munitions, identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as TNT, napalm, depleted uranium, mercury and lead. The report was rejected by thousands of Vieques residents, many of whom filed a lawsuit, later dismissed, that accused the U.S. government of causing illnesses by leaving harmful residues on the land.

Withers noted in his report that the Navy fired more than 300,000 munitions in Vieques from the mid-1940s to 2003, taking control of 77 percent of the land.

So far, the Navy has removed 17 million pounds of scrap metal and destroyed more than 38,000 munition items on land, according to Navy spokesman Jim Brantley.

The next step is to clear munitions underwater. Navy officials are mapping the area to determine where munitions are located, a process that will take up to 18 months, Waddill said.

"We expected that to take longer than the land cleanup," he said, adding that officials have to protect endangered coral species. "It takes time to do this kind of work safely."

Puerto Rico's Secretary of Government Ingrid Vila said the U.S. territory will push to ensure the remaining land be cleaned and returned to Vieques municipality.

Vila said officials also want to revive a 2003-2004 plan aimed at boosting the island's economy, including reopening a Vieques government office charged with economic development.

Tourism remains the island's main economic engine, with hotel occupancy growing from 41 percent to 56 percent in the past two fiscal years, according to Puerto Rico's tourism company. The number has dropped slightly so far this fiscal year.

Vila noted that a middle school is to open in Vieques in coming weeks, and that Puerto Rico's health secretary is meeting with officials in Vieques to discuss community needs.

"Vieques has to be a priority," Vila said as she met with community leaders celebrating the Navy's departure. "It cannot become relevant only when there's an anniversary."