Photo by Paul Jeffrey
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Cristina Vasquez (standing) and Leonor Cruz, two
Methodist laywomen on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, pray for three children with
abnormally high levels of lead in their blood. Vieques residents complain of a variety of illnesses
that many blame on six decades of US Navy bombing of the island.
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