For Alicia Rodríguez, one of the ex Puerto Rican political prisoners released in 1999, the past 10 years have been “a constant challenge.” Instead of returning to Chicago, she preferred to move to Puerto Rico, where she’d never lived before.
…over 130 community leaders and students came out to brainstorm and plan the campaign for 2010
“…you represent a ray of hope and encouragement to persevere and continue fighting…I am physically far from my country, but I carry it in my soul…”
If granted parole, Carlos would be released in April 2010! That’s just a couple of months away!
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) of the United States government continues to obstruct the parole of Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres, while Torres is supposedly set for a hearing with the U.S. Parole Commission’s (USPC) hearing examiner next Tuesday, January 19.
Her decision to come to Puerto Rico after her release was above all about family and love for her homeland.
Join us for these 2010 events for the release of Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera!
On December 12, 2009, National Boricua Human Rights Network organized a summit at Hostos College in the Bronx, New York of old and new activist in the campaign to release the Puerto Rican political prisoners.
Luers was originally sentenced in 2001 to twenty two years and eight months for the politically motivated arson of three SUV’s at a car dealership in Eugene, OR.
“It’s hard to get back lost time, especially when it has to do with the family,” is the first reaction of former Puerto Rican political prisoner Alberto Rodríguez, reflecting on these 10 years after his release in 1999.
