This news from Vieques, Puerto Rico: hundreds of funeral-goers on Thursday mourned a man killed mistakenly by jets training in Puerto Rico for Kosovo, a death that has ignited protests against the US military presence. Before the funeral on the island of Vieques, protesters infiltrated the US Navy training ground, where David Sanes Rodriguez was killed, and erected a ten-foot-high white cross on top of a tank used for target practice. Rodriguez was a civilian security guard at the training ground. He died Monday when two US Marine F-18 jets from the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier dropped five hundred-pound bombs off target and hit an observation post. The jets and aircraft carrier were training for an assignment in the Adriatic Sea to relieve forces fighting in Kosovo.
Funeral Held for David Sanes Rodriguez in Vieques
HeadlineApr 23, 1999