Protests have continued in Puerto Rico against the Trump administration’s military trainings on the beaches of Arroyo, a town in the southeast of the island. In recent weeks, residents have described witnessing military drills and amphibious landings carried out by the Navy and Marines as part of the U.S.’s ongoing strikes on boats in the Caribbean, claiming without evidence the vessels are carrying drugs. This is a resident of Arroyo, Enrique Rivera Zambrana.

Enrique Rivera Zambrana: “We are against imperialism. We are against any type of military intervention in the country of Venezuela. And above all, we are against the vile and terrible assassinations of our fishermen brothers that have happened with the pretext that they are boats for drug traffickers. We condemn those killings and terrible actions. We are in favor of peace.”

Tuesday’s action was also to honor the life of Puerto Rican revolutionary leader Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal, who was found dead in a Florida prison in 1979, after he was detained for protesting the U.S. Navy’s occupation of the island of Vieques.