Biography
Jose Antonio Otero Otero was vice-president of the New York junta, editor of its newspaper, and the party’s minister of propaganda. A federal grand jury indicted the party leaders on May 25, 1954 for seditious conspiracy, alleging a continuing campaign to end United States rule in Puerto Rico by force. A jury in the Southern District of New York convicted Jose Antonio Otero Otero in October 1954. The court sentenced Jose Antonio Otero Otero to six years in federal prison, and the Second Circuit affirmed the conviction on May 10, 1955.
