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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Puerto Rico: Political Prisoners (3)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.021359.748@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /** reg.puertorico: 28.0 **/
- ** Topic: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners (3) **
- ** Written 6:12 pm Aug 24, 1992 by caribdoc in cdp:reg.puertorico **
- From: Proyecto Caribeno de Justicia y Paz <caribdoc>
- Subject: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners (3)
-
-
- NOTE: This information was taken from LIBERTAD UPDATE [publication
- of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of
- War], April 18, 1992, p. 4. It was edited.
-
- Luis Alfredo Colon, member of the Ejercito Popular
- Boricua-Macheteros, was recaptured on March 16, 1992 in Rio Piedras,
- Puerto Rico.
-
- .....was first arrested on August 30, 1985, along with 14
- other independentistas from across the island. All were accused of
- membership in the PRTP/EPB-Macheteros, a clandestine political
- military organization, and with the expropriation of $7.5 million
- from a Wells Fargo depot in Hartford, Connecticut on September 12,
- 1983.
-
- All were placed on bond awaiting trial. On September 23,
- 1990, while on bond, both Luis and Filiberto Ojeda Rios [one of the
- persons arrested on August 30, 1985], went into clandestinity. Once
- again rejoining the ranks of the EPB-Macheteros.
-
- [His statement to the Court, without edition]
-
- *I, Luis Alfredo Colon Osorio
- Declare and clarify to the press and the people of Puerto Rico in
- general the following:
-
- I do not recognize U.S. Federal jurisdiction in Puerto Rico, nor
- the courts imposed on this land by the power of armed force.
-
- I denounce the cmapaign of lies that the FBI is carrying out in
- relation to my arrest and the supposed control substance they
- allegedly found on me at the time on my arrest. The enemy practices
- such tacticss in order to tarnish and demoralize the independence
- movement.
-
- Nevertheless, I declare that the drug problem in this country
- [Puerto Rico] is not, as they allege, the main cause of crime in
- our country. Although I recognize that a great number of people
- in our country, children, to youngsters and adults from all
- social spheres, use drugs as a form of escape and survival, they
- are not, nor will they ever be, the main cause of our problems.
-
- The real cause is nothing but the socio-political situation produce
- by a Machiavellian pla directed and orchestrated by the U.S.
- government in order to sustain a relationship of political control
- over all aspects or our development as a free and sovereign nation.
-
- *Today, before our country and all the countries of the world,
- the U.S. Government is guilty of and responsible for all the deaths
- that occur on a daily basis in our country.
-
- *I denounce any intent of the FBI to repress, terrorize of pressure
- humble and good Puerto Rican people, such as members of the PNP(2),
- Populares(3), Independentistas and people that are not affiliated
- with any political party, merely for having given a fellow Puerto
- Rican a plate of rice and beans.
-
- *The only court with the power, the global mandate andd the right to
- judge me is the Hague International Court.
-
- *I have been arrested due to the conflict between the Puerto Rican
- nation and the U.S. Government; therefore I take a stand according
- to the Geneva Convention and claim all the rights that are guaranteed
- to any Prisoner of War.
-
- *Even though this fact is irrefutable, I will not stop using all the
- mechanisms within our reach to defend myself against the injustice
- committed against me, our country and the Independence movement.
-
- *When I was arrested I had a booklet with various phone numbers, that
- included family members and Puerto Ricans friends that have nothing
- to do with my situation, or my political beliefs.
-
- And the FBI is going to use this booklet to repress and terrorize
- these good Puerto Rican people. In the booklet I have telephone
- numbers fo doctors, family members, friends and journalists.
-
- *And finally, a greeting to all Puerto Rican people to have faith in
- God. In this slow decolonization process, together with poetry, the
- arts, the guitar and song, with honest day to day practice, and with
- the power of a whole nation in the different trenches of struggle,
- from the legal to armed confrontation, we will achieve results
- desired by all: liberty. And all is done for love.
-
-
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