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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
16 ta    Asamblea,  1 ra Sesión
Legislativa Ordinaria
SENADO DE PUERTO RICO
R. del S. 499
19 de junio de 2009
Presentada por el señor Rivera Schatz
Referida a
RESOLUCIÓN
Para solicitar al Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América, Hon. Barack H. Obama, que reconozca los sacrificios de los ciudadanos americanos residentes en la Isla de Vieques, [...]

Today, over 7,000 Viequenses who have filed a lawsuit against the U.S Navy for injury and harm to their health filed an Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss in federal district court in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico has been a colony for 111 years: a humiliating colonial condition in the 21st Century. It is high time that this crime against our people is resolved, resolved and resolved.

In the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico, we have suffered mistreatment and unending abuse. It is the truth. But it is also true that we have had triumphs which we are proud of, because we have managed to maintain our identity, our culture, and above all, our dignity.

…the incident took place last Tuesday when Cintrón Fiallo was running errands for his work as an investigator…four cars followed him…

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.

Representantes de diversas organizaciones independentistas, socialistas y de los derechos humanos convocaron ayer, por medio de la Mesa de Solidaridad contra la represión federal, a la marcha…

In Puerto Rico, we women are fighting for our rights as workers, we are fighting for a healthy environment, for poor and marginalized communities, for the freedom of the political prisoners…