National Boricua Human Rights Network

Juan Santiago Nieves (Attorney) January 5, 2012 http://www.elnuevodia.com/columna-oscarentucumpleanos-1159837.html (Spanish follow English) “And in spite of the fact that here the silence from outside is more painful than the solitude inside the cave, the song of a bird or the sound of a cicada always reaches me to awaken my faith and keep me going.” (Oscar [...]

By Cándida Cotto Published: Thursday, January 5, 2012 http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=AEAA8193B1C4551474375F5C0C417AD8 With the slogan “2012, the year of Oscar López Rivera’s release,” the Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico (CPDH, by its Spanish initials) called on the Puerto Rican people to intensify demands for the release of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, who this year [...]

Este próximo el 30 de octubre de 2011,  se cumplirá 61 años de la Insurrección Nacionalista en Puerto Rico comandada  por el Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico bajo la egregia y sabia dirigencia de don Pedro Albizu Campos. Le tocó el privilegió a la valiente nacionalista Blanca Canales declarar por segunda vez la República de [...]

(AP)  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s Justice Department has denounced a scathing U.S. federal report on the island’s police force even though the governor and other officials accepted the findings and pledged improvements. The territory’s attorneys attacked the federal findings in a court motion this week involving a police brutality suit brought by [...]

por Millie Gil El nacionalista mayagüezano Rafael Cancel Miranda ofrecerá una charla sobre el Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, el Grito de Lares y la relevancia para Puerto Rico del Padre de la Patria, en el Café Betances, en el número 100 de la calle del patricio en Mayagüez, el próximo viernes siete, a las 8 [...]

FBI Interested In Puerto Rican Nationalist Group By EDMUND H. MAHONY and HILDA MUÑOZ, emahony@courant.com The Hartford Courant http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-machetero-fbi-0902-20110901,0,3620415.story   7:09 p.m. EDT, September 1, 2011 A high-profile Puerto Rican nationalist claims an apparent electronic tracking device he found attached to his car was placed there by federal authorities in an effort to intimidate him. [...]

Elnuevodia.com This video shares a clip about the gathering in solidarity with Puerto Rico, September 12th and 13th,2011 in Cuba.  This gathering represents solidarity in the call for justice for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and the Cuban 5.  As the speakers share, commemorating the 143rd anniversary of el Grito de Lares was symbolic and [...]

A crowd of 50 enthusiastic well-wishers and supporters greeted Father Luis Barrios and the 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba last Sunday, July 10 at the Adalberto United Methodist Church. Pastor and activist Emma Lozano began the event with a service and powerful service linking the Cuba Caravan to the struggle to free the [...]

By Cándida Cotto, Claridad Newspaper (registration required) Above the servile behavior of the politicians and some pro-statehood followers of the New Progressive Party (NPP) and the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) during the visit of the president of the United States Barack Obama, one indisputable fact that stood out was the consensus that exists among the [...]

After a successful round of hearings at the United Nation Decolonization Committee and reception on Monday, June 20, this is to commend all who contributed to this year’s success through work, presence in the activities or both. The resolution adopted at the hearings, sponsored by five countries, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, once again [...]