Biography
Norberto Cintrón Fiallo was a Puerto Rican independence militant and a leader of the Armed Forces of Popular Resistance (Fuerzas Armadas de Resistencia Popular, FARP). He was arrested in a federal bank-robbery prosecution in January 1981, held until bail in May, and acquitted in July. Less than a week after bail, he was jailed separately for civil contempt for refusing grand-jury hair samples. That imprisonment continued until November 1982, not 1984–1985. Contemporary reporting and federal records differ by one day on the final discharge, November 10–11, 1982. A longtime independence organizer and CUCRE board member, he remained active until his death in 2024.
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Separate criminal and contempt custody
Michael Deutsch's attorney-sourced account distinguishes January–May 1981 criminal detention from the subsequent contempt imprisonment. Original Libertad, Winter 1983, page 9 reports actual freedom on November 11, 1982. Official BOP register 00800-069 instead gives November 10; the difference remains explicit. Federico Cintrón's separate later prosecution is not assigned to Norberto.
The named family memorial contains an individually identified portrait. Identity context agrees with the movement memorial. The portrait was visually inspected, but reuse permission has not been established, so no image asset is copied or substituted.
The reproduced memorial describes actual prison time for refusing federal grand jury testimony over a Navy bus attack, 1970s anti-repression organizing and an April 2006 raid on Liliana Laboy’s apartment. The raid is not evidence of a new prison admission. This memorial supplies no exact contempt confinement dates or death day.
The Dragons Fire, March 15–April 15, 2024, vol. 72, PDF page 8.
