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While the navy works to clean up what it left, vieques tries to deal with the financial crisis in its own ways. ♪ chef erica connelly grew up here and has raised her family here. she invited me to a meal at her home. joining us is her mother and son, carlito, her two nieces, and her best friend, elda. >> anthony: now where was the bombing range? >> erica: pretty close here, 2 miles after this. >> elda: maybe less. this was part of the navy land. >> anthony: when did the navy stop using vieques as a bombing range? >> carlito: 2003. >> anthony: that's not that long ago. so what you'd be eating...

From our farmers. and here we have the escabeche. >> anthony: like fried fish marinated or pickled. >> xavier: these have fried local mackerel and then i roast all the vegetables and cure it for at least a week. >> anthony: the salt fish is good. the coconut milk really takes that salty -- >> anthony: vieques is officially within the commonwealth of puerto rico. the main island, a mere eight miles away. it is phenomenally peaceful here, but it hasn't always been that way. for over sixty years, the island was used as a bombing range for the us navy and for training exercises. the soil is rich w...

Years of explosives raining down on it. many see a clear connection between that recent history and a cancer rate that is 30% higher than the rest of puerto rico. while the navy works to cleanup what it left, it tries to deal with the financial crisis in its own ways. chef erica bu long grew up here is and has raised her family here. she invited me to a meal at her home, joining us are her mother and son, her two nieces and her best friend elda. >> where was the bombing range? >> pretty close here. two miles. maybe less. >> that was part of the navy land. >> what did the navy stop using it as ...

>> the salt fish is good. coconut milk really takes that salty -- it's awesome. within the commonwealth of puerto rico, the main island a mere eight miles away. it is phenomenon alley peaceful here, but it hasn't always been that way. for over 60 years the island was used as a bombing range for the u.s. navy and for training exercises. the soil is rich with depleted uranium, agent orange, the kind of good stuff left over after 60

Raining down on it. many see a clear connection between that recent history and a cancer rate that is 30 percent higher than in the rest of puto rico. while the navy works to clean up what it left, vieques tries to deal with the financial crisis in its own ways. ♪ chef erica connelly grew up here and has raised her family here. she invited me to a meal at her home. joining us is her mother and son, carlito, her two nieces, and her best friend, elda. >> anthony: now where was the bombing range? >> erica: pretty close here, 2 miles after this. >> elda: maybe less. this was part of the navy lan...