Puerto Rico

Juan Antonio Corretjer

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Juan Antonio Corretjer was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist and independence activist born in Ciales. He became...

Jorge Cruz Hernandez

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Jorge Cruz Hernandez served 18 months in federal prison at FCI Edgefield, South Carolina for civil disobedienc...

Nydia Esther Cuevas

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Nydia Esther Cuevas (Cuevas Rivera) is a Puerto Rican independence activist who, with Pablo Marcano García, se...

Alberto De Jesús Mercado

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Alberto 'Tito Kayak' De Jesús Mercado is a Puerto Rican environmental and independence activist famous for spe...

Wilfredo Estrada Adorno

Wilfredo Estrada Adorno was imprisoned for civil disobedience against U.S. Navy operations in Vieques in 2001....

Hilton Fernández Diamante

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Hilton Fernández Diamante was arrested on August 30, 1985 in the Wells Fargo/Macheteros prosecution and held p...

Andrés Figueroa Cordero

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Andrés Figueroa Cordero was one of the four Puerto Rican Nationalists who attacked the U.S. House of Represent...

Irvin Flores Rodríguez

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Irvin Flores Rodríguez was one of the four Puerto Rican Nationalists who attacked the U.S. House of Representa...

Juan Gallardo Santiago

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Juan Gallardo Santiago was a Puerto Rican independence activist and writer born in the Benavento barrio of Hor...

Pablo Garcia

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Pablo Garcia Rodriguez was a Harvard-trained civil-rights lawyer and member of the central committee of the Co...

Víctor García San Inocencio

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Víctor García San Inocencio, a Puerto Rican Independence Party representative, was jailed on August 4, 2000 in...

Carmen Gonzalez Arias

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Carmen Gonzalez Arias was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as par...

Orlando González Claudio

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Orlando González Claudio was arrested on August 30, 1985 in the Macheteros prosecution arising from the Wells...

Avelino González-Claudio

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Avelino González-Claudio was a Puerto Rican independence militant and a member of Los Macheteros (the Boricua...

Norberto González-Claudio

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Norberto González-Claudio was a Puerto Rican independence militant and a member of Los Macheteros, and the you...

Ismael Guadalupe

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Vieques community leader and one of the Vieques 4, sentenced in 1979 for trespassing on the US Navy bombing ra...

Ismael Guadalupe Torres

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Ismael Guadalupe Torres is one of the founding members of the Vieques Committee for the Rescue and Development...

Roberto Iván Aponte

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

Lolita Lebrón

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Lolita Lebrón was Dolores 'Lolita' Lebrón Sotomayor and led the four-person commando team that attacked the U....

Consuelo Lee de Corretjer

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Consuelo Lee Tapia de Corretjer was a Puerto Rican writer, pianist, educator and independence activist. A gran...

Hiram Lozada

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Hiram Lozada was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the...

Juan Manuel Dalmáu

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

Pablo Marcano García

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Puerto Rican independentista and artist who, with Nydia Cuevas, occupied the Chilean Consulate in San Juan on...

León Martínez

León Martínez was imprisoned during the 1979 Vieques campaign against U.S. Navy operations. The January–Februa...