Puerto Rico

Mildred Martínez

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

Heriberto Marín

Released

Heriberto Marín Torres (born November 23, 1928, in Barrio Coabey, Jayuya) was one of the youngest fighters of...

Pablo Maysonet Marrero

Pablo Maysonet Marrero was imprisoned for civil disobedience against U.S. Navy operations in Vieques. In a fir...

Ivonne Meléndez Carrión

Released

Ivonne Meléndez Carrión, also identified in court records as Yvonne Meléndez Carrión, was a Puerto Rican indep...

Filiberto Ojeda Rios

Released

Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Cuban-trained Puerto Rican Communist and the founder and lifelong leader of the Ejé...

Luis A. Olivera

Released

Luis A. Olivera was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of t...

Julio Ortega Miranda

Released

Julio Ortega Miranda was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...

Gabriel Parrilla Fontánez

Released

Gabriel Parrilla Fontánez was a 22-year-old Puerto Rican nationalist sought as a draft delinquent during the K...

Antulio Parrilla Bonilla

Released

Antulio Parrilla Bonilla, a Catholic bishop, was arrested on May 19, 1979 during a protest against U.S. Navy o...

Harold A. Penner

Released

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

Ernesto Peña Carambot

Released

Ernesto Peña Carambot was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as par...

Julio Pinto Gandia

Released

Julio Pinto Gandia was a leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in 1937 in the wave of repres...

Robert Rabin Siegal

Released

Robert Rabin Siegal is a U.S.-born Vieques resident and longtime member of the Vieques Committee for the Rescu...

Roberto Ramirez

Released

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

Norman Ramírez Talavera

Released

Norman Ramírez Talavera was arrested in the August 30, 1985 Macheteros sweep. He describes an initial pretrial...

Wilma Reverón Collazo

Released

Wilma Reverón Collazo is a Puerto Rican lawyer and independence advocate. She was arrested during the May 19,...

Danny Rivera Mendez

Released

Danny Rivera Mendez was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...

John Anthony Robles II

In Exile

John Anthony Robles II is an indigenous Taino, anti-racist activist and journalist from Puerto Rico. In 1995 R...

Emilia Rodríguez

Emilia Rodríguez was imprisoned during the 1979 Vieques campaign against U.S. Navy operations. The January–Feb...

Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal

Released

Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal was a farmer, Puerto Rican independence and socialist activist who served as a leade...

Manuel Rodríguez Orellana

Released

Manuel Rodríguez Orellana, a Puerto Rican Independence Party senator, was jailed on August 4, 2000 in connecti...

Isabel Rosado Morales

Released

Isabel Rosado Morales was a Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader and educator known as "Doña Isabel," repeate...

Juan Saez Corales

Released

Juan Saez Corales was a veteran Puerto Rican labor leader and Communist, a candidate for the island's House of...

Lourdes Santana Melecio

Lourdes Santana Melecio was imprisoned for confronting the U.S. Navy in Vieques. Luis Rogelio Torres Maldonado...