National Boricua Human Rights Network

The ostentatious persecution of Cintrón Fiallo— effectuated by four vehicles that surveilled him for hours, from his home and across from his work— took place only a few days after the Boricua Popular Army–Macheteros announced they had penetrated the secret information systems of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The degrading and inhumane treatment constitute violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention Against Torture, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, and the Principles for the Protection of All Persons Under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment…

Carlos Alberto Torres lleva 28 años preso y Oscar López Rivera lleva 27 años preso. Avelino González Claudio fue arrestado y espera juicio próximamente. Todos han ido a la cárcel por su creencia en la independencia de Puerto Rico y por su lucha para que los puertorriqueños ejerzan verdaderamente el derecho a la autodeterminación.

Michael Reyes’ newest poetical audio work, Blood Dries Black, commemorates the 2005 assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, clandestine leader of Los Macheteros, by the FBI in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico (Ojeda Ríos bled to death). Reyes relates this horrible event to other acts of violence and devastation in Latin America by the United States, painting a [...]

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