Two people drowned after falling off a boat on Vieques island, and the other died after his house collapsed while he was inside.
While this was made mostly to enhance service between Culebra, Fajardo and Vieques, the deal also included the "Lancha de Cataño" service.
In August 1952 he assumed command of the attack transport Sanborn, which conducted landing exercises at Vieques, Puerto Rico and Onslow Beach, North Carolina as part of Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet.
After that, Benítez was the owner of Benítez Sugar Company in Vieques.
When Carla Tricoli, a Vieques native, won the 2002 Miss Puerto Rico contest, her first flight as a beauty queen landed at Vieques Airport.
She has been honored with five Emmy's, two Gracies from the American Women in Radio and Television association , and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for journalism for her coverage of the exit of the United States Navy from the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico after 60 years of military occupation.
Today it is limited to the northeastern corner of the island, specifically in the municipality of Fajardo within the Northeast Ecological Corridor, and to the island-municipalities of Vieques and Culebra.
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In 2005 Puerto Rican botanists Juan Carlos Trejo, with Miguel Vives, Marcos Caraballo and Tomás Carlo "re-discovered" the species in Vieques Island.
During March, the Condors received a prepare to deploy order in support of the Department of Justice (DOJ) operations in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Mario Torres-Marin was a prosecutor for the Puerto Rico Department of Justice who died during a drug-war operation when a Puerto Rico National Guard in which he was being transported to supervise several arrests on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico crashed during severe weather north of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Navy's largest training area for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet used to be in Puerto Rico and in the Atlantic Ocean surrounding the island, but this was ended after President George W. Bush ordered the closure of the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station and the Vieques Island training grounds.
He had become an investor in properties in the Caribbean, including part-owner in the Martineau Bay Resort (a former Wyndham Hotels & Resorts property) in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
In both Cuba and Puerto Rico, the politicized lyrics of nueva trova were very often critical of the United States; Puerto Rican singers were especially critical of Vieques' continued use as a United States Navy training ground.
The MPI and PSP launched campaigns against US military bases on the island, including campaigns against bombing drills by the US Navy on Vieques and Culebra, and against environmental destruction.
Licensed to Vieques, Puerto Rico, it serves part of Puerto Rico, large areas of the US Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles.
WZOL, a radio station (98.9 FM) licensed to Vieques, Puerto Rico, which held the call sign WYAS from 2007 to 2009