National Boricua Human Rights Network

Write to the patriots! The National Boricua Human Rights Network is initiating a holiday letter and card writing campaign to Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Oscar López Rivera and Avelino & Norberto González Claudio (Addresses below). As part of our annual commissary campaign, the Network has sold pasteles for Thanksgiving, raising over $1000 and is hosting [...]

Spanish follows English version Avelino writes:   To: My Wife, Children, Family and Friends,   On May 27, 2011, I went to a hearing to see if they would grant me a discretionary parole prior to Mandatory Parole. Discretionary parole covers the period after serving 28 months of my sentence. After 56 months comes the [...]

In August of 1985, Avelino González Claudio was accused of participating in the planning and authorization of an operation to secure $7,117,000 from a Wells Fargo armored truck in Hartford, Connecticut on September 12, 1983, along with other Puerto Ricans and two North Americans. The operation was carried out by a clandestine organization fighting for [...]

“Avelino” is a 15 minute documentary in Spanish, focusing primarily on the day police arrested him in February 2008 after over 20 years in clandestinity. It includes interviews with Avelino’s wife Blanca and other family members, as well as friends and supporters of the campaign for his freedom. Avelino was extradited to Connecticut, where he [...]