Photo by Paul Jeffrey
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Ecumenical resistance: Enrique Mercado, a pastor of
the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico, holds the rope tight for Ricardo Colon, a Capuchin priest.
The two are working together to tie down a tent at a Catholic Church-sponsored resistance camp
in the Navy-controlled area of Vieques, a Puerto Rican island where the US military has bombed
for 60 years. There are currently 14 different camps, two of them church-sponsored, on the
bombing range.
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