Biography
Pedro Mario Monges, also known as Chango Caribe and Chango Monges, was associated with the Black Liberation Army in movement publications and the Margaret Walker Center’s archival description of his prison correspondence. He pleaded guilty to federal bank robbery and received an eighteen-year sentence. Brooklyn jail records and a 1974 civil-rights decision document extended custody and his challenge to restrictions in administrative segregation. He was recaptured after an attempted escape on May 25, 1975. His eventual release date and later custody status remain unverified.
The newsletter’s May 30, 1975 statement describes the Brooklyn House of Detention escape attempt on the night of May 25. It reports Melvin Rema Kearney’s fatal fall and Pedro Chango Monges’s escape and recapture. Monges’s recapture is not assigned the date of Kearney’s death without individual evidence. Black Community News Letter, volume13, July1975, Awakening of a Dragon, original PDF page 23. Source: https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC32_scans/32.BlackComNewsletter.AwakeningofaDragon.pdf#page=23
The appendix individually identifies Pedro Monges (also printed Manges) in actual Brooklyn House of Detention custody and describes attempted escapes. It dates the handcuff-key attempt August 15, 1974. The May 25, 1975 account reports Kearney’s fatal fall and Monges’s recapture, without independently dating the moment of recapture. Failed escape, death and recapture are not interchangeable with an authorized release; no missing final endpoint is manufactured.
Report of the New York State Policy Study Group on Terrorism, November 1985, PDF page 85.
