The Water’s Edge, known as La Orilla del Mar in Spanish, is the bi-weekly e-newsletter of the National Boricua Human Rights Network and publishes the latest news about the Campaign to Free Oscar López Rivera. Oscar, a 72 year old Puerto Rican political prisoner convicted for seditious conspiracy, has spent the last 33.75 years imprisoned for his political beliefs, is the object of a campaign which has united Puerto Rican civil society, Nobel Laureates, as well as support throughout the US and internationally.
Oscar López Rivera has become known as the Nelson Mandela of Latin America.