A new blog “TRAVESIA LIBRE” has gone up to support the kayaking journey of Tito Kayak. Read the latest on his journey and route here.
On June 20, Puerto Rican environmental activist Alberto De Jesus “Tito Kayak” rowed through the Caribbean Antilles from Venezuela to Puerto Rico to generate support for the release of political prisoner Oscar Lopez-Rivera, who has spent 31 years in the American prison system. Oscar was convicted for “seditious conspiracy”. Convicted rapists and murderers in the USA generally serve much briefer sentences than Oscar, who was not convicted of any violent act. The US government intends to keep him imprisoned for fifteen more years, until July 2027. Oscar is currently 69 years old.