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The following is a press release sent through the Puerto Rico Indymedia list serve yesterday:
Comunicado de Prensa
¡Contra la expatriación y por los derechos del compañero Avelino González Claudio!
La Mesa de Solidaridad de Puerto Rico, iniciativa para apoyar a todos/as los perseguidos/as por el FBI, convocamos una manifestación para respaldar al compañero Avelino González Claudio [...]

View photos of Oscar from 2 recent visits. Go to flickr album.

Carmelo Ruiz Marrero spoke last year on his new book, “Transgenic Ballad”, which he presented at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

EL VOCERO, February 8, 2008
(Click here for the original article)

After being weighed down by an arrest warrant for him for a little more than 22 years, for the robbery of the Wells Fargo company in Hartford, Connecticut, agents of the Puerto Rican Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in Manatí yesterday arrested Avelino [...]

González continues the difficult process that began with clandestinity:The presumed Machetero, facing federal prosecution, adopted a different identity 22 years ago
By Daniel Rivera Vargas / drivera2@elnuevodia.com (Click here for the original article)
February 8, 2008
The clandestinity of the presumed Machetero Avelino González Claudio must have been a difficult life process, and the experience of being a [...]

English translation of the letter sent by Puerto Rico groups condemning Avelino González Claudio’s arrest:
We extend to you our cordial greetings from Mayaguez:
As we have already denounced, Comrade Avelino Gonzalez Claudio was arrested by the F.B.I. today, and will be confronting charges that will be leveled against him outside of Puerto Rico.
Avelino was one [...]

The following letter regarding the recent arrest of Avelino González Claudio was sent to the Puerto Rico indymedia list serve on Febraury 8. It condemns his arrest and the U.S.’s anti-terrorism campaign and asserts the right of Puerto Ricans to resist the FBI. It also announces a solidarity demonstration to be held on Monday, [...]

February 6, 2008
Dear compañeros y compañeras in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and our Americas:
We want to express our profound thanks and eternal gratitude to you and all the organizations (artists and media included) who for the past two months have generously joined a glorious campaign to support us. However, we know that the campaign has [...]

Two articles on the resent arrest of alleged Machetero, Avelino Gonzalez Claudio:
Machetero Leader Arrested In Puerto Rico
Hartford Courant, February 7, 2008
FBI agents in Puerto Rico said Thursday that they arrested Avelino Gonzalez Claudio, a fugitive member of the Puerto Rico pro-independence group Los Macheteros who is charged in the 1983 robbery of more [...]

Educational charla about grand juries with attorney Michael Deutsch of the Peoples’ Law Office