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Freedom for Puerto Rican POWs

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1993 published in Prison Legal News September, 1993, page 7
Filed under: Discrimination, Political Prisoners. Location: Puerto Rico.
Today the United States government holds in its custody many Puerto Rican women and men, criminalizing them for having fought for the independence of their country. Like George Washington in his day, they are anti-colonial combatants. Washington's contemporary, Thomas Paine, defended in Common Sense the choice to take up arms ...

 

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