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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-CA style='mso-ansi-language:
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lang=EN-CA style='mso-ansi-language:EN-CA'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><big><big>National
Lawyers
Guild
International Committee <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>Presentation to the United Nations
Decolonization
Committee<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>Hearings on Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>June 17, 2013<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
National
Lawyers
Guild was founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American
Bar Association, which did not admit people of color. The oldest and
largest
public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States,
with
headquarters in New York, it has chapters in every state. From its
founding,
the National Lawyers Guild has maintained an internationalist
perspective, with
international work a critical focus for the Guild. Its International
Committee
has organized delegations to many countries throughout the world, and
Guild
members are involved in organizations such as the International
Association for
Democratic Lawyers and the American Association of Jurists. Presently,
active
subcommittees exist for Cuba, the Middle East, Korea, Haiti, Palestine,
Iran,
Puerto Rico, indigenous American peoples, and the Philippines, among
others.
Guild members, including myself, have a long history of defending
activists in
the Puerto Rican independence movement. Our 2013 annual convention will
be held
in Puerto Rico, so that our members can learn first hand about the
colonial
situation.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>I. Colonial status<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
Obama
administration,
as preceding U.S. administrations, acknowledges that
the
unresolved status of the relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico
continues to be “of overwhelming importance to the people of Puerto
Rico.”<a style="" href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><sup>1</sup></a>
Yet, as its predecessors, it continues to be an obstacle to a
resolution
consistent with international law, in spite of this Committee’s
consistent
urging over the decades.<a style="" href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2"
title=""><sup>2</sup></a> <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>A
2012
election
day “plebiscite,” not authorized by U.S. Congress, referred to
by
some as a “pseudo-plebiscite,”<a style="" href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3"
title=""><sup>3</sup></a> and by others as “a tortured
political process,”<a style="" href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><sup>4</sup></a>
resulted in just another poll about the colonial
status, just as the previous “plebiscites” held in 1967, 1993, and 1998
— in
none of which did statehood prevail.<a style="" href="#_edn5"
name="_ednref5" title=""><sup>5</sup></a> Convened during a statehood
administration,
it was the first of all the plebiscites to ask two questions. First, it
asked,
"Are you satisfied with the current territorial status?"<a style=""
href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><sup>6</sup></a>
to which 54% of the voters responded no. Second, voters selected from
three
status options, the definitions of which were hotly contested:
statehood,
"sovereign free associated state," and independence. The results
demonstrated that 51% of the voters said they wanted a change the
status quo
colonial condition. The vote was, respectively, 61.5%, 33.3%, and 5.5%.
However,
466,337 voters intentionally left the second question blank,
representing the
commonwealth party’s formal, organized protest over the failure to
include
their preferred definition of free associated state.<a style=""
href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><sup>7</sup></a> Those blank
votes, added to the sovereign free associated state votes, added up to
51% of
the vote, leaving statehood with 45.1% of the total vote.<a style=""
href="#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title=""><sup>8</sup></a> The statehood
party’s claimed victory rang hollow,<a style="" href="#_edn9"
name="_ednref9" title=""><sup>9</sup></a> and the U.S. president
stated the
results were “unclear.”<sup>1<a style="" href="#_edn10" name="_ednref10"
title="">0</a></sup> However, there is no doubt that the
majority of Puerto Ricans expressed a desire to change the status quo
colonial
condition. <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>President
Obama
recently
announced that the U.S.budget includes $2.5 million for yet
another “plebiscite,”<sup>1<a style="" href="#_edn11" name="_ednref11"
title="">1</a></sup> and the pro-statehood, non-voting
representative to U.S. Congress has proposed a bill in that forum aimed
at
achieving statehood — a bill criticized by many, including members of
U.S.
Congress of Puerto Rican descent.<sup>1<a style="" href="#_edn12"
name="_ednref12" title="">2</a></sup> <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
colonial
status
must be resolved according to international law, allowing the
Puerto Rican people to exercise its inalienable right to
self-determination,
without intervention by the U.S., as this Committee has repeatedly
resolved for
the past thirty years.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>II. Federal intervention<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Not
surprisingly,
in
a colony, the presence of the colonial power looms large in
the daily lives of Puerto Ricans and in the administration of the
colony. A
U.S. agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] administers
the
police department,<sup>1<a style="" href="#_edn13" name="_ednref13"
title="">3</a></sup> just as former FBI agents have done for
most of the past two decades. The U.S. Department of Justice continues
its
legal intervention with the corrupt, violent and mismanaged Puerto Rico
Police
Department,<sup>1<a style="" href="#_edn14" name="_ednref14" title="">4</a></sup>
after having issued a report finding, <i>inter alia</i>,
that police committed acts of discrimination, used excessive and
unwarranted
deadly force, conducted unlawful searches and seizures, and regularly
used
tactics to intimidate demonstrators rather than to address legitimate
threats
to public safety.<sup>1<a style="" href="#_edn15" name="_ednref15"
title="">5</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>As
if
the
presence of multiple U.S. agencies were not sufficient penetration
of
Puerto Rican society, since 2005 the FBI has operated what it calls a
“citizens
academy,” to recruit and train Puerto Rican citizens to become FBI
allies and
promoters, and “to convert them into voluntary eyes and ears” for the
repressive agency, graduating 20 in 2013.<sup>1<a style=""
href="#_edn16" name="_ednref16" title="">6</a></sup> <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>News
of
drug
raids by federal agents is constant<sup>1<a style="" href="#_edn17"
name="_ednref17" title="">7</a></sup> — yet the federal agencies
charged with controlling the borders of the country (Puerto Rico has no
control
over its own borders) have not stemmed the flood of incoming drugs,
despite
repeated requests from the colonial administration to do so.<sup>1<a
style="" href="#_edn18" name="_ednref18" title="">8</a></sup>
Nor have the federal agencies managed to control the sale of drugs or
guns, or
the violence wreaked on Puerto Rican society by the drug wars, in spite
of
pleas by local police and elected officials,<sup>1<a style=""
href="#_edn19" name="_ednref19" title="">9</a></sup> and in spite of
constant arrests<sup>2<a style="" href="#_edn20" name="_ednref20"
title="">0</a></sup> — often with a lack of regard for the
safety of the population<sup>2<a style="" href="#_edn21"
name="_ednref21" title="">1</a></sup> — and a burgeoning prison
population.
Federal agencies have, however, managed to budget over $100 million for
a new
FBI complex,<sup>2<a style="" href="#_edn22" name="_ednref22" title="">2</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>all the while
discriminating against Puerto Ricans in their agencies.<sup>2<a style=""
href="#_edn23" name="_ednref23" title="">3</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>U.S.
intervention
into
the daily lives of the Puerto Rican people also continues to
be a constant, with unsought and often unwelcome investigations by
federal
agencies of a range of issues from public corruption<sup>2<a style=""
href="#_edn24" name="_ednref24" title="">4</a></sup> to bank
transactions,<sup>2<a style="" href="#_edn25" name="_ednref25" title="">5</a></sup>
to the state university<sup>2<a style="" href="#_edn26" name="_ednref26"
title="">6</a></sup>
and the vanishing coqui.<sup>2<a style="" href="#_edn27"
name="_ednref27" title="">7</a></sup> <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>U.S.
repression
of
the independence movement continues its long and sordid history.
In one manifestation of this intervention since 911, U.S. agencies have
been
detaining, interrogating and harassing independentistas in
international
airports, disrupting their travel.<sup>2<a style="" href="#_edn28"
name="_ednref28" title="">8</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Consistent
with
its
history of cultivating economic dependence,<sup>2<a style=""
href="#_edn29" name="_ednref29" title="">9</a></sup> U.S. intevention
takes the form of financing a variety of projects, from schools to roads<sup>3<a
style="" href="#_edn30" name="_ednref30" title="">0</a></sup>
to re-employment,<sup>3<a style="" href="#_edn31" name="_ednref31"
title="">1</a></sup> to the environment,<sup>3<a style=""
href="#_edn32" name="_ednref32" title="">2</a></sup>
with local criticism falling on deaf ears.<sup>3<a style=""
href="#_edn33" name="_ednref33" title="">3</a></sup> News of federal
budget
cuts was received as a threat to an already debilitated economy.<sup>3<a
style="" href="#_edn34" name="_ednref34" title="">4</a></sup>
<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Not
even
elections,<sup>3<a style="" href="#_edn35" name="_ednref35" title="">5</a></sup>
a traditional measure of “democracy,” and
not even Puerto Rican national patrimony are safe from U.S.
intervention, with
the U.S. recently claiming two sites as U.S. national historic
landmarks,
including Old San Juan.<sup>3<a style="" href="#_edn36" name="_ednref36"
title="">6</a></sup><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/federal-government-adds-2-pr-sites-to-list-of-national-historic-landmarks-82106.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/federal-government-adds-2-pr-sites-to-list-of-national-historic-landmarks-82106.html</a>
(“National
historic landmarks are nationally significant historic places that
possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting
the
heritage of the United States.” According to the U.S. Secretary of the
Interior, “Today’s designations include significant sites that help
tell the
story of America and the contributions that all people from all walks
of life
have made as we strive for a more perfect union.”).<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>III. Other Challenges to Civil/Human
Rights <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
previous
colonial
administration was trounced in a David versus Goliath battle
over a referendum aiming to amend the constitution to do away with the
right to
bail.<sup>3<a style="" href="#_edn37" name="_ednref37" title="">7</a></sup>
The pro-statehood party’s generous funding could not hold
a candle to grassroots successful — and completely unfunded —
organizing
efforts to defeat the proposed amendment.<sup>3<a style=""
href="#_edn38" name="_ednref38" title="">8</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Rights
for
the
LBGTQ community faced significant controversy. The long struggle
for
equality resulted in a partial victory when activists recently won
legislation
outlawing employment discrimination based on gender or sexual
orientation.<sup>3<a style="" href="#_edn39" name="_ednref39" title="">9</a></sup>
At the same time, the struggle suffered a setback when the Puerto Rico
Supreme
Court ruled that the Puerto Rico Adoption Act’s prohibition on same-sex
couple
adoption is not unconstitutional, finding that sexual orientation is
not a
suspect class and does not warrant protection, a ruling which may be
appealed.<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn40" name="_ednref40" title="">0</a></sup>
<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>IV. Economy<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
ongoing
colonial
status of Puerto Rico is crippling its economy, affecting its
social fabric, and driving its population from the island. It is no
surprise
that talented, well-educated Puerto Ricans are emigrating in droves to
the
United States.<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn41" name="_ednref41" title="">1</a></sup>
More than half the population now resides
in the United States.<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn42" name="_ednref42"
title="">2</a></sup> “It’s the economy, stupid,” as Bill
Clinton so astutely declared in his successful 1992 campaign for U.S.
president.<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn43" name="_ednref43" title="">3</a></sup>
The poverty level is at an alarming 45%,<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn44"
name="_ednref44" title="">4</a></sup>
college graduates can’t find jobs<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn45"
name="_ednref45" title="">5</a></sup> — while the school
dropout/push-out rate is 40%,<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn46"
name="_ednref46" title="">6</a></sup> bankruptcies are on the
rise,<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn47" name="_ednref47" title="">7</a></sup>
teachers protest cuts in retirement benefits and an
increase employee contributions proposed to help save the public
pension
system,<sup>4<a style="" href="#_edn48" name="_ednref48" title="">8</a></sup>
and the economy continues to decline into the red.<sup>4<a style=""
href="#_edn49" name="_ednref49" title="">9</a></sup>
The chief of the country’s economic think tank, the Center for the New
Economy,
expressed that he “ha[s] never been so worried about the economy of
Puerto
Rico.”<sup>5<a style="" href="#_edn50" name="_ednref50" title="">0</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>V. Death penalty<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Although
the
Puerto
Rican constitution — approved by U.S. Congress — prohibits the
death
penalty in Puerto Rico, consistent with its long term ban prior to the
constitution, and no one has been executed in Puerto Rico since 1927,<sup>5<a
style="" href="#_edn51" name="_ednref51" title="">1</a></sup>
it is one of the jurisdictions with the highest number of cases
certified by
the U.S. Department of Justice for the death penalty.<sup>5<a style=""
href="#_edn52" name="_ednref52" title="">2</a></sup> In each of the
six
trials in which the U.S. has sought the death penalty, Puerto Rican
juries have
refused to impose that sentence,<sup>5<a style="" href="#_edn53"
name="_ednref53" title="">3</a></sup> while civic and religious
groups consistently maintained vigils outside the courthouse.<sup>5<a
style="" href="#_edn54" name="_ednref54" title="">4</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
current
governor
and the resident commissioner have publicly expressed
opposition to the death penalty,<sup>5<a style="" href="#_edn55"
name="_ednref55" title="">5</a></sup> and the governor has asked
the U.S. Attorney General not to certify additional cases for the U.S.
death
penalty.<sup>5<a style="" href="#_edn56" name="_ednref56" title="">6</a></sup>
Even the former chief judge of the federal court called
the penalty “a waste of time” and “a crazy, crazy, crazy way to deal
with these
cases.”<sup>5<a style="" href="#_edn57" name="_ednref57" title="">7</a></sup>
<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>An
editorial
in
the main daily newspaper charged that the U.S. Attorney General
must recognize that a united people have morally summoned him to
declare a
moratorium on the death penalty in Puerto Rico, as a step in the
transition to
the total elimination of what it called “that cruel type of sentence.”<sup>5<a
style="" href="#_edn58" name="_ednref58" title="">8</a></sup>
Yet, the colonial relationship leaves the people of Puerto Rico
powerless even
to exercise their own constitution prohibiting this barbaric punishment
in
their own land.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>VI. Environment<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
people
of
Puerto Rico, led by a Puerto Rican environmental justice group Casa
Pueblo,<sup>5<a style="" href="#_edn59" name="_ednref59" title="">9</a></sup>
waged a long and successful battle to stop the U.S.
government and the previous colonial administration from constructing a
90-mile
long costly and corrupt gas pipeline project called “the Green Way” by
the
government, but called “the Pipeline of Death” by the people.<sup>6<a
style="" href="#_edn60" name="_ednref60" title="">0</a></sup>
A Puerto Rican member of U.S. Congress active in the fight to stop the
pipeline
declared: <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>The Puerto Rican people resisted the
construction of the
massive pipeline because it was never needed, could never become fully
functional, and risked ruining the precious natural beauty of Puerto
Rico while
driving people from their land.<span style=""> </span>All of
the evidence indicated a tremendous risk to endangered species, fresh
water,
and the island's delicate terrain and a huge risk to the people of
Puerto Rico
from spills, explosions, or other disasters.<sup>6<a style=""
href="#_edn61" name="_ednref61" title="">1</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Resistance
to
the
pipeline is but one example of the multitude of struggles being
waged to
protect Puerto Rico’s environment and agriculture. A few examples
include a
coalition of Arecibo residents organizing to halt an incinerator which
could
pose serious air-quality and other dangerous environmental impacts, but
the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency nevertheless granted a permit for the
plant to
proceed.<sup>6<a style="" href="#_edn62" name="_ednref62" title="">2</a></sup>
The Agricultural Rescue Front organized to protect some of
the richest farmland in the country from encroachment by industrial
wind
turbines in Santa Isabel.<sup>6<a style="" href="#_edn63"
name="_ednref63" title="">3</a></sup> After years of struggle to
protect the
Northeast Ecological Corridor, organized citizens finally achieved a
law
protecting the nature reserve.<sup>6<a style="" href="#_edn64"
name="_ednref64" title="">4</a></sup> Citizen groups have sued
the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, seeking a limitation on
fishing
plant-eating fish, which are beneficial to maintaining a healthy reef
by eating
the algae which can kill the reefs,<sup>6<a style="" href="#_edn65"
name="_ednref65" title="">5</a></sup> which in Puerto Rico are
in sharp decline.<sup>6<a style="" href="#_edn66" name="_ednref66"
title="">6</a></sup> The effects of the colonial presence of
the U.S. are clearly far-reaching and widely resisted.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>VII. Vieques<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>This
year
marked
the tenth anniversary of the closing of the former live-missile
and
bombing range owned and operated by the U.S. Navy, a cessation won by
decades
of struggle and a massive campaign of civil disobedience. The U.S. left
a
shameful legacy of death and destruction, including use of the most
toxic and
lethal substances, which it has failed to responsibly address, leaving
many
promises unkept.<sup>6<a style="" href="#_edn67" name="_ednref67"
title="">7</a></sup> One of the many editorials in Puerto
Rico’s main daily newspaper declared, “in the ten years since the
Navy’s
departure, there has been no remediation. Thus, as an issue of human,
social
and economic rights of the people of Vieques, the Navy must comply with
decontamination.”<sup>6<a style="" href="#_edn68" name="_ednref68"
title="">8</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
people
of
Vieques and their supporters continue to struggle for: 1)
environmental clean up and decontamination – thousands of unexploded
bombs and
other military artifacts still litter beaches, mangrove lagoons and the
coral
reefs/ocean floor around the eastern portion of the island;<sup>6<a
style="" href="#_edn69" name="_ednref69" title="">9</a></sup>
2) return of ex-Navy lands to the Puerto Rican people (most of the land
was
transferred to the jurisdiction of U.S. Interior Department’s Fish and
Wildlife
Service); 3) sustainable development;<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn70"
name="_ednref70" title="">0</a></sup> and 4) attention to
Vieques’ health crisis (the island suffers 30% more cancer than the
rest of
Puerto Rico, exaggerated levels of diabetes, hypertension,
cardiovascular ills
and other catastrophic diseases).<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn71"
name="_ednref71" title="">1</a></sup><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>VIII. Political prisoners<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>We
are
honored
to make this year’s presentation in the presence of Clarisa
López
Ramos, daughter of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera,
who on
May 29 marked 32 years of imprisonment — an historic moment around
which the
entire nation of Puerto Rico united in unprecedented fashion and
clamored for
the release of the man who has served more time in prison for the cause
of the
independence of Puerto Rico than any other independentista in history.<sup>7<a
style="" href="#_edn72" name="_ednref72" title="">2</a></sup>
In a 24-hour demonstration of their indignation at the U.S. over this
disproportionate punishment, and their compassion and solidarity with a
70 year
old man they warmly embrace as their brother, Puerto Ricans from every
sector
of society and of every political persuasion entered symbolic prison
cells in
the plazas of five cities throughout the island, taking turns serving
as
“prisoners” for 24 hours.<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn73"
name="_ednref73" title="">3</a></sup> The news media saturated the
island with
coverage: the main daily newspaper issued its second editorial in a
matter of
months favoring his release,<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn74"
name="_ednref74" title="">4</a></sup> as did the main radio station;
television
and radio stations broadcast from the plazas. The governor and many
stars of
stage and screen announced their support, including world famous Puerto
Rican
entertainers Ricky Martin<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn75"
name="_ednref75" title="">5</a></sup> and René Perez and Residente of
Calle 13;<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn76" name="_ednref76" title="">6</a></sup>
interfaith religious services prayed for his release as chapel bells
rang 32
times; a former governor,<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn77"
name="_ednref77" title="">7</a></sup> the president of the senate<sup>7<a
style="" href="#_edn78" name="_ednref78" title="">8</a></sup>
and the bar association,<sup>7<a style="" href="#_edn79"
name="_ednref79" title="">9</a></sup> and the mayors of ten cities<sup>8<a
style="" href="#_edn80" name="_ednref80" title="">0</a></sup>
entered the symbolic cells as “prisoners,” as did businessmen and
journalists,
clergy,<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn81" name="_ednref81" title="">1</a></sup>
athletes,<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn82" name="_ednref82" title="">2</a></sup>
artists<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn83" name="_ednref83" title="">3</a></sup>
and academics. Whole families and entire government offices entered the
“cells.”<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn84" name="_ednref84" title="">4</a></sup>
The following day, the Senate of Puerto Rico passed a
resolution calling for his release.<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn85"
name="_ednref85" title="">5</a></sup> <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
32<sup>nd</sup> anniversary events were only the culmination of a
series of
events to highlight the injustice of his continuing imprisonment.
Throughout
the year since this Committee’s last hearing on Puerto Rico,
international
support has continued to grow, with expressions emanating from Nobel
Laureates,<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn86" name="_ednref86" title="">6</a></sup>
churches and religious organizations,<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn87"
name="_ednref87" title="">7</a></sup> social justice
organizations,<sup>8<a style="" href="#_edn88" name="_ednref88" title="">8</a></sup>
etc.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Support
in
Puerto
Rico has blossomed to an unprecedented level, with expressions
from
every sector of society, from elected officials<sup>8<a style=""
href="#_edn89" name="_ednref89" title="">9</a></sup> to professional
organizations<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn90" name="_ednref90" title="">0</a></sup>
and cooperatives,<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn91" name="_ednref91"
title="">1</a></sup>
to veterans<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn92" name="_ednref92" title="">2</a></sup>
and beauty queens.<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn93" name="_ednref93"
title="">3</a></sup><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Last
summer,
environmental
and human rights activist Tito Kayak dedicated to López
Rivera a challenging month long kayak trip fromVenezuela to Puerto
Rico,
stopping throughout the Antilles to advocate for his release.<sup>9<a
style="" href="#_edn94" name="_ednref94" title="">4</a></sup>
December of 2012 saw the convening of an International Human Rights
Summit
dedicated to López Rivera’s release, with the participation of
distinguished
human rights activists from New York to Argentina to Palestine.<sup>9<a
style="" href="#_edn95" name="_ednref95" title="">5</a></sup>
In February of this year, one of the nation’s largest outdoor music
festivals
was dedicated to him, with a concert by the nation’s finest musicians
and
composers.<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn96" name="_ednref96" title="">6</a></sup>
Art exhibits,<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn97" name="_ednref97" title="">7</a></sup>
murals,<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn98" name="_ednref98" title="">8</a></sup>
books, dedication of public events — such as when the mayor of San Juan
dedicated her electoral victory to him<sup>9<a style="" href="#_edn99"
name="_ednref99" title="">9</a></sup> — abound.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>Meanwhile,
jailers
at
the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Indiana, rather
than leaving him alone to serve his sentence in peace, have only
increased the
level of harassment and vigilance of this model prisoner. Implementing
heightened censorship, for the first time in 32 years they banned him
from
sending messages to public events, unless they pre-approve the
messages. Until
the very recent inquiry of a U.S. elected official, they spurned all
media
requests to interview him, claiming spuriously that the interviews
“could
jeopardize security and disrupt the orderly running of the
institution.” After
the inquiry, they continue to spurn all requests for in-person
interviews,
stating they will cede a telephone interview, though one has yet to
take place.
<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>In
a
recent
meeting with the U.S. Attorney General, Puerto Rico’s governor
and
attorney general advocated for López Rivera’s release.<sup>10<a style=""
href="#_edn100" name="_ednref100" title="">0</a></sup>
They expressed confidence that there is positive movement toward his
release,<sup>10<a style="" href="#_edn101" name="_ednref101" title="">1</a></sup>
but he remains behind bars, entering his 33<sup>rd</sup> year of
imprisonment. <o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
resolution
recently
passed by the Senate of Puerto Rico called López Rivera
"the political prisoner who is still serving the longest prison
sentence,
surpassing Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former president of South
Africa
Nelson Mandela.”<sup>10<a style="" href="#_edn102" name="_ednref102"
title="">2</a></sup> As the world sends get well wishes to
Nelson Mandela, held by the apartheid regime in South Africa for a
shockingly
long 27 years in prison, it is a propitious moment for this august body
to once
again urge the president of the U.S. to release Oscar López Rivera,
after an
appalling 32 years in U.S. prisons for having fought for his people’s
inalienable right to independence and self-determination.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>IX. Conclusion<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>The
National
Lawyers
Guild International Committee, incorporating the requests
sought by the majority of the other presenters before this Honorable
Committee,
urges the adoption of a resolution calling for the General Assembly to
consider
the case of Puerto Rico; and calling on the government of the United
States to:<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>*
immediately
cease
the brutality, criminalization and harassment of, and attacks
on, the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and all those who exercise
their
fundamental rights to expression and association;<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>*
immediately
release
Puerto Rican political prisoners Oscar López Rivera, who
has served more than 32 years in U.S. custody, and Norberto González
Claudio;<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>*
identify
and
hold criminally liable all those responsible for the assassination
of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (2005), Santiago Mari Pesquera (1976), Carlos
Muñiz
Varela (1979), and other militants of the Puerto Rican independence
movement;<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>*
withdraw
the
FBI, the U.S. court, and all other U.S. police, repressive and
military forces and agencies from Puerto Rico;<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>*
withdraw
from
Vieques, formally return legal property of the land to the people
of Vieques, cease detonating unexploded ordnance, completely clean up
the
pollution left by the U.S. Navy’s 60 year occupation through the use of
proven,
environmentally friendly clean-up methods, foster and support a
sustainable
economy, and compensate the people of Vieques for the damage to their
health
done to them by the same;<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>*
cease
and
desist from the application of the death penalty in Puerto Rico;<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style=""> </span>*
formally
commit
to negotiate in good faith with the people of Puerto Rico a
solution to the colonial condition; and recognize the proposals that
emanate
from a Constitutional Assembly, initiated by the people of Puerto Rico,
such as
that called for by the Puerto Rico Bar Association, as the true
expression of
the aspirations of the people of Puerto Rico, and respond to them
accordingly.<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big>Dated: June 17, 2013<span style="">
</span>Respectfully
submitted,<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style="">
</span>Jan
Susler<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style="">
</span>People’s
Law Office<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style="">
</span>1180
N. Milwaukee<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
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</span>Chicago,
IL 60642<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style="">
</span>773/235-0070<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><a href="mailto:jsusler@aol.com"><span
class="SYSHYPERTEXT"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><span
style="color: black;">jsusler@gmail.com</span></span></span></a><span
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><o:p> </o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style="">
</span>On
behalf of the National Lawyers Guild<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><span style="">
</span>International
Committee<o:p></o:p></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><big><big><a
href="http://www.nlginternational.org/"><span class="SYSHYPERTEXT"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">http://www.nlginternational.org/</span></span></span></a></big></big><span
style=""><big><big> </big></big>
</span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1.</span></a><i>Report
by
the
President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status</i>, March, 2011,
Executive Summary at 3,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/Puerto_Rico_Task_Force_ExecSummary.pdf">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/Puerto_Rico_Task_Force_ExecSummary.pdf</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn2">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title="">2.</a>“Puerto
Rican
Lawyer speaks at the UN Decolonisation Committee
seminar,” <i>MercoPress</i>, May 29, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/29/puerto-rican-lawyer-speaks-at-the-un-decolonisation-committee-seminar">http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/29/puerto-rican-lawyer-speaks-at-the-un-decolonisation-committee-seminar</a>;
“Estados
Unidos
no permite la libre determinación de Puerto Rico: Abogada
puertorriqueña habla en seminario del Comité de Descolonización de la
ONU,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/estadosunidosnopermitelalibredeterminaciondepuertorico-1521049.html#.UaZrrEQ3SoM.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/estadosunidosnopermitelalibredeterminaciondepuertorico-1521049.html#.UaZrrEQ3SoM.facebook</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn3">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title="">3.Rafael
Anglada
L</a>ópez and Olga I. Sanabria Dávila, “El seudo
plebiscito – Un engaño sobre Puerto Rico,” <i>Red Betances</i>,
November 2,
2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.redbetances.com/component/content/article/51-en-portada/1319-rafael-anglada-lopez-y-olga-i-sanabria-davila.html">http://www.redbetances.com/component/content/article/51-en-portada/1319-rafael-anglada-lopez-y-olga-i-sanabria-davila.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt -5.4pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn4">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" title="">4.Ed
Morales,
</a>“The Puerto Rico Plebiscite That Wasn't,” <i>ABC
News</i>, November 8, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY">http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn5">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" title="">5.Ed
Morales,
</a>“The Puerto Rico Plebiscite That Wasn't,” <i>ABC
News</i>, November 8, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY">http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn6">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6.</span></a>Danica
Coto,
Associated
Press, “PR seeks to solve status issue,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:cb.pr@gmail.com"><span
class="SYSHYPERTEXT"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span
style="color: black;">mailto:cb.pr@gmail.com</span></span></span></a></span>November
4,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-seeks-to-solve-status-issue-78257.html">http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-seeks-to-solve-status-issue-78257.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn7">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7.</span></a>Danica
Coto,
“Puerto
Rico votes to change relationship with US; majority wants
statehood,” <i>MSNBC</i>, November 8, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49737548/#.UJyTReRfDN9">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49737548/#.UJyTReRfDN9</a>;
see also,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://prfaa.pr.gov/espanol/noticias/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Resolucion-Concurrente-24.pdf">http://prfaa.pr.gov/espanol/noticias/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Resolucion-Concurrente-24.pdf</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn8">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8" title="">8.Ed
Morales,
</a>“The Puerto Rico Plebiscite That Wasn't,” <i>ABC
News</i>, November 8, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY">http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn9">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref9" name="_edn9" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9.</span></a>Jack
Kenny,
“Puerto
Rico Vote for Statehood Questioned,”<i> New American</i>,
November 8, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13568-puerto-rico-vote-for-statehood-questioned">http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13568-puerto-rico-vote-for-statehood-questioned</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn10">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref10" name="_edn10"
title="">10.Jos</a>é A. Delgado, “Casa Blanca dice que no hubo un
mandato a favor de la estadidad: Portavoz hace nuevos comentarios sobre
los
resultados del plebiscito de status,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, December 3,
2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/casablancadicequenohubounmandatoafavordelaestadidad-1400069.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/casablancadicequenohubounmandatoafavordelaestadidad-1400069.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn11">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref11" name="_edn11"
title="">11.CB Online Staff, </a>“PR status plebiscite in Obama
budget,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, April 10, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-status-plebiscite-in-obama-budget-83109.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-status-plebiscite-in-obama-budget-83109.html</a>;
Danica
Coto,
Associated Press, “US Seeks to Fund New Puerto Rico Status
Plebiscite,” <i>ABC News</i>, April 11, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-seeks-fund-puerto-rico-status-plebiscite-18927565#.UWgDDKLpVbY">http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-seeks-fund-puerto-rico-status-plebiscite-18927565#.UWgDDKLpVbY</a>;
“Obama
destinará
más de $2 millones para plebiscito en la Isla,” <i>Metro</i>,
April
10, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.metro.pr/mundo/obama-destinara-mas-de-2-millones-para-plebiscito-en-la-isla/pGXmdj%21wBO01fXtIT0I/">http://www.metro.pr/mundo/obama-destinara-mas-de-2-millones-para-plebiscito-en-la-isla/pGXmdj!wBO01fXtIT0I/</a><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn12">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref12" name="_edn12"
title="">12.</a>“Bill in U.S. Congress seeks vote on Puerto Rican
statehood,” <i>Reuters</i>, May 15, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-usa-puertorico-status-idUSBRE94E11320130515">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-usa-puertorico-status-idUSBRE94E11320130515</a>;
See,
e.g.,
Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez on Puerto Rico Status Legislation,
May
15, 2013, (“Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) made the following statement
regarding Puerto Rico status legislation introduced in the House today:
‘If we
are to fairly resolve the issue of Puerto Rico's status, we must find a
framework for true self-determination. The 'Puerto Rico Status
Resolution Act'
being introduced today fails that test in every aspect: it denies
Puerto Ricans
a true vehicle for self-determination and fabricates a superficial
majority in
favor of statehood.’”); CB Online Staff, “Gutiérrez: Status bill does
nothing
for PR,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, May 15, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/gutierrez-status-bill-does-nothing-for-pr-84597.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/gutierrez-status-bill-does-nothing-for-pr-84597.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn13">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref13" name="_edn13" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">13.</span></a>Eugenio
Hopgood
Dávila,
“Sí” a que Pesquera se quede: El superintendente, entretanto,
guarda silencio sobre sus planes,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 2, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/siaquepesquerasequede-1460174.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/siaquepesquerasequede-1460174.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn14">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref14" name="_edn14"
title="">14.</a>“Departamento de Justicia Federal demanda a la
Policía de Puerto Rico: La acción se basa en una investigación
comenzada en
2008, que reveló que la Uniformada ha violado los derechos civiles a la
ciudadanía,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, December 21, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/departamentodejusticiafederaldemandaalapoliciadepuertorico-1413140.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/departamentodejusticiafederaldemandaalapoliciadepuertorico-1413140.html</a>;
CB
Online
Staff, “PR, feds negotiate costly police reform,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, May 21, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-feds-negotiate-costly-police-reform-84759.html.The">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-feds-negotiate-costly-police-reform-84759.html.The</a>
U.S.
DOJ intervention is ironic, given that former agents of its own FBI
have
administered the Puerto Rico Police Department for decades, and that
Puerto
Rico police receive training from the U.S.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn15">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref15" name="_edn15"
title="">15.Bel</a>én Fernández, “Puerto Rico's outlaw police
force: Police in the US territory have been accused of civil rights
abuses and
overzealous crackdowns on peaceful protests,” <i>Aljazeera</i>, June
26, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/06/2012620112025706894.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/06/2012620112025706894.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn16">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref16" name="_edn16"
title="">16.Iveliss</a>e Rivera Quiñones, “FBI gradúa a civiles
en academia especial: Unos 20 ciudadanos conocieron el funcionamiento
de esta
agencia,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 10, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbigraduaacivilesenacademiaespecial-1465608.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbigraduaacivilesenacademiaespecial-1465608.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn17">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref17" name="_edn17"
title="">17.See, e.g., Alex Figueroa Cancel, </a>“Desarticulan
ganga de narcos de lujo: Federales diligencian 21 órdenes de arresto
por cargos
de narcotráfico y lavado de dinero,”<i> El Nuevo Día</i>, September 26,
2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulangangadenarcosdelujo-1351338.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulangangadenarcosdelujo-1351338.html</a>;
“Megaoperativo
federal
en Río Piedras,” <i>NotiCel</i>, February 28, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138011/megaoperativo-federal-en-rio-piedras.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138011/megaoperativo-federal-en-rio-piedras.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn18">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref18" name="_edn18"
title="">18.</a>“Fortuño exige acción a los federales para combatir
narcotráfico,” <i>Primera Hora</i>, January 13, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/fortunoexigeaccionalosfederalesparacombatirnarcotrafico-602227.html">http://www.primerahora.com/fortunoexigeaccionalosfederalesparacombatirnarcotrafico-602227.html</a>
(“‘The
federal security agencies in Puerto Rico lack the necessary resources
to
combat the illegal entry of drugs and to guarantee the security of the
Puerto
Rican people. This is a matter of national security. Puerto Rico
deserves to be
treated the same as the 50 states, and the disproportionate amount of
resources
is what is generating repercussions in the increase of drug trafficking
in the
region. The level of violence caused by drug trafficking that exists
today is
without precedent, and is directly tied to the Island’s position as the
center
of the unprotected border of the Caribbean,’ wrote the Governor in one
of his
letters. The Chief Executive pointed out that given the
disproportionate levels
of violent crime existing in Puerto Rico, compared with other other
states on
the border with Mexico, there is evidence that federal law enforcement
agencies
on the Island need to be strengthened.”); José A. Delgado, “Escala en
Washington el reclamo de seguridad: Pierluisi se reúne con Seguridad
Interna,”
El Nuevo Día, January 18, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/escalaenwashingtonelreclamo-1168032.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/escalaenwashingtonelreclamo-1168032.html</a>;
InterNews
Service,
“Homeland Security undersecretary met with Pierluisi,” <i>Puerto
Rico
Daily Sun</i>, January 18, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Homeland-Security-undersecretary-met-with-Pierluisi">http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Homeland-Security-undersecretary-met-with-Pierluisi</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn19">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref19" name="_edn19"
title="">19.</a>“Pesquera: Estados Unidos está "jodido"
si no ayuda a PR con la criminalidad,” NotiCel, March 28, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/139468/pesquera-estados-unidos-esta-jodido-si-no-ayuda-a-pr-con-la-criminalidad.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/139468/pesquera-estados-unidos-esta-jodido-si-no-ayuda-a-pr-con-la-criminalidad.html</a>;
“Reclaman
más
recursos contra el narcotráfico en Puerto Rico: Comité del Senado
acoge iniciativa del comisionado Pierluisi, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March
12,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/reclamanmasrecursoscontraelnarcotraficoenpuertorico-1467842.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/reclamanmasrecursoscontraelnarcotraficoenpuertorico-1467842.html</a>;
Gerardo
Cordero,
“Fortuño quiere más agentes federales en Puerto Rico: La
aspiración máxima del gobernador sería lograr lo que han denominado
iniciativa
de la frontera del Caribe,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, September 19, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fortunoquieremasagentesfederalesenpuertorico-1347505.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fortunoquieremasagentesfederalesenpuertorico-1347505.html</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn20">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref20" name="_edn20" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">20.</span></a>See,
e.g.,
“Desarticulan
narcogangas más de 200 federales: Intervienen en cinco
residenciales
de Arecibo, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 21, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulannarcogangasmasde200federales-1474512.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulannarcogangasmasde200federales-1474512.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn21">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref21" name="_edn21"
title="">21.Yaritza Santiago, </a>“Alarman los métodos del
gobierno federal: Operativos en sitios públicos ponen en riesgo vidas
inocentes,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, July 29, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/alarmanlosmetodosdelgobiernofederal-1310503.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/alarmanlosmetodosdelgobiernofederal-1310503.html</a>
(federal
law enforcement pattern of opening fire in busy shopping malls,
endangering the surrounding public).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn22">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref22" name="_edn22"
title="">22.CB Online Staff, </a>“Obama budget has $95M for FBI
facility in PR,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, April 10, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/obama-budget-has-$95m-for-fbi-facility-in-pr-83141.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/obama-budget-has-$95m-for-fbi-facility-in-pr-83141.html</a>
(estimated
total cost of the project: $106.6 million).<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn23">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref23" name="_edn23"
title="">23.See, e.g., Oscar J</a>. Serrano, “DEA discrimina
contra agentes boricuas,” <i>Noticel</i>, February 6, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/117743/dea-discrimina-contra-agentes-boricuas.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/117743/dea-discrimina-contra-agentes-boricuas.html</a>
(ten
Puerto Rican agents employed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration
sued that agency for systematic discrimination, alleging that they
receive
lower salaries than their U.S. counterparts, and that they are used as
“cannon
fodder” during investigations, while their U.S. counterparts are not
exposed to
danger). See also, Alex Figueroa Cancel, “Denuncian discrimen contra
veteranos
puertorriqueños: Alegan en foro que no reciben el mismo trato que en
EE.UU.,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, September 11, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/denunciandiscrimencontraveteranospuertorriquenos-1341378.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/denunciandiscrimencontraveteranospuertorriquenos-1341378.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn24">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref24" name="_edn24"
title="">24.See, e.g., Alex Figueroa Cancel, </a>“FBI investiga
casos de corrupción pública: Aseguran que será prioridad,” <i>El Nuevo
Día</i>,
February 11, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigacasosdecorrupcionpublica-1446068.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigacasosdecorrupcionpublica-1446068.html</a>;
Limarys
Suárez
Torres, “FBI investiga a alguaciles federales y policías locales
en Puerto Rico: Por la presunta violación de derechos civiles, <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>,
December 29, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigaaalguacilesfederalesypoliciaslocalesenpuertorico-1416899.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigaaalguacilesfederalesypoliciaslocalesenpuertorico-1416899.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn25">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref25" name="_edn25"
title="">25.Joanisabel Gonz</a>ález, “Pesquisa federal al Banco
Gubernamental de Fomento: El regulador federal realiza pesquisa por
transacciones de Retiro y Carreteras,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, May 3,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/pesquisafederalalbancogubernamentaldefomento-1503074.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/pesquisafederalalbancogubernamentaldefomento-1503074.html</a>;
Alex
Figueroa
Cancel, “Operativo federal contra organización dedicada al
fraude
bancario: Diligencian 42 órdenes de arresto en nueve<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>municipios y seis estados,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, May 24, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/operativofederalporfraudebancario-1518175.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/operativofederalporfraudebancario-1518175.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn26">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref26" name="_edn26" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">26.</span></a>Antonio
R.
Gómez,
“Federales ampliaron pesquisa tras intervención en la UPR: La
orden
que tramitaron ayer oficiales del gobierno federal representa una
ampliación y
profundización de la pesquisa,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, April 27, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesampliaronpesquisatrasintervencionenlaupr-1499608.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesampliaronpesquisatrasintervencionenlaupr-1499608.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn27">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref27" name="_edn27" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">27.</span></a>Federales
protegen
coquí
a punto de desaparecer: El coquí llanero es declarado en peligro
de extinción,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, October 4, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesprotegencoquiapuntodedesaparecer-1356894.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesprotegencoquiapuntodedesaparecer-1356894.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn28">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref28" name="_edn28"
title="">28.See, e.g., </a>“Hostigamiento y persecución a
independentistas puertorriqueños que viajan a países latinoamericanos,”
Fundación
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, April 14, 2010,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/04/14/persecucion-contra-independentistas-puerto-rico/">http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/04/14/persecucion-contra-independentistas-puerto-rico/</a>;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">José A. Delgado, “Soberanista pasa malrato en
Inmigración:
Manuel Rivera relata que lo interrogan sobre reuniones de política en
España,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, October 23, 2010, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/soberanistapasamalratoeninmigracion-803681.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/soberanistapasamalratoeninmigracion-803681.html</a>;
CyberNews,
“Impiden
salida del país a líder nacionalista,” <i>Noticel</i>, June
6, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noticel.com/noticia/141387/impiden-salida-del-pais-a-lider-nacionalista.html">http://noticel.com/noticia/141387/impiden-salida-del-pais-a-lider-nacionalista.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn29">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref29" name="_edn29" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">29.</span></a>José
A.
Delgado,
“Más pobres y más PAN en la Isla: Llegan a $2,056 millones los
fondos del PAN, $400 millones más que los del 2008,” El Nuevo Día,
October 28,
2012, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspobresymaspanenlaisla-1372815.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspobresymaspanenlaisla-1372815.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn30">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref30" name="_edn30"
title="">30.Jos</a>é A. Delgado, “Inyectan millones de dólares
para mejoras a carreteras y puentes en Puerto Rico: Los fondos son
parte de
$473 millones que nunca fueron entregados a 49 estados, Washington D.C.
y
Puerto Rico,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, August 17, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/inyectanmillonesdedolaresparamejorasacarreterasypuentesenpuertorico-1324796.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/inyectanmillonesdedolaresparamejorasacarreterasypuentesenpuertorico-1324796.html</a>;
CB
Online
Staff, “$3.5M in federal funds for PR roads,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
February 16, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$3.5m-in-federal-funds-for-pr-roads-81217.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$3.5m-in-federal-funds-for-pr-roads-81217.html</a>;
CB
Online
Staff, “$26.8M for VA Hospital parking lot,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
October 8, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$26.8m-for-va-hospital-parking-lot-77217.html">http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$26.8m-for-va-hospital-parking-lot-77217.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn31">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref31" name="_edn31" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">31.</span></a>“US
Labor
Dep’t
grants funds for re-employment,” <i>Puerto Rico Daily Sun</i>,
May
8, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.prdailysun.com/news/US-Labor-Dept-grants-funds-for-re-employment">http://www.prdailysun.com/news/US-Labor-Dept-grants-funds-for-re-employment</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn32">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref32" name="_edn32" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">32.</span></a>CB
Online
Staff,
“PR gets $249K to protect wetlands,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>,
February 11, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-gets-$249k-to-protect-wetlands-81015.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-gets-$249k-to-protect-wetlands-81015.html</a>;
José
A.
Delgado, “EPA asigna fondos para aguas limpias: Distribuye $46
millones
a oficinas en Puerto Rico, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, October 20, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/epaasignafondosparaaguaslimpias-1367123.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/epaasignafondosparaaguaslimpias-1367123.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn33">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref33" name="_edn33" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">33.</span></a>See,
e.g.,
Antonio
R. Gómez, “Alega una “falta de cortesía”: Perelló truena contra
la FAA, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, February 27, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/alegaunafaltadecortesia-1457308.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/alegaunafaltadecortesia-1457308.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn34">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref34" name="_edn34"
title="">34.Editorial, </a>“Previsiones Ante Recorte Federal,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, March 4, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-previsionesanterecortefederal-1461028.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-previsionesanterecortefederal-1461028.html</a>
(An
editorial in Puerto Rico’s main daily newspaper warned “Without any
agreement in the U.S. capital, where the Island has no decisive power,
a
drastic package of budget cuts has begun, known as the ‘sequester,’”
which will
impose an austerity program affecting essential services in Puerto Rico
funded
by the U.S. in the areas of education, defense, public health,
environmental,
and violence against women. “More than 300 university students could
lose
financial aid funding, more than 2,300 might be left without access to
work
study programs, some 2,400 Head Start children may have no classes,
some 70
educators could lose their jobs, and some 300 women victims of domestic
violence could lose vital survival servies, among others.”).<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn35">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref35" name="_edn35"
title="">35.Carlos Gallis</a>á, “Federalización de las
elecciones,” <i>Claridad</i>, October 23, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=95A67941914FA440A47E152E762F2DD9">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=95A67941914FA440A47E152E762F2DD9</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn36">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref36" name="_edn36"
title="">36.CB Online Staff, </a>“Federal government adds 2 PR
sites to list of national historic landmarks,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>,
March
11,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn37">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref37" name="_edn37"
title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">37.</span></a>Yaritza
Santiago Caraballo, “Batalla de David contra Goliat: El PNP invirtió
miles en
el “Sí”, pero los del “No” apenas gastaron,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
August 18,
2012, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/batalladedavidcontragoliat-1324968.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/batalladedavidcontragoliat-1324968.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn38">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref38" name="_edn38"
title="">38.Israel Rodr</a>íguez Sánchez, “Lección para el
poderoso: El país rechazó la propaganda y defendió los derechos,” <i>El
Nuevo
Día</i>,
August 20, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/leccionparaelpoderoso-1326262.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/leccionparaelpoderoso-1326262.html</a>;
Ed
Morales,
“No Means No: A People's Victory in Puerto Rico,” August 20,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://emorales7.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/no-means-no-a-peoples-victory-in-puerto-rico/">http://emorales7.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/no-means-no-a-peoples-victory-in-puerto-rico/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn39">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref39" name="_edn39" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">39.</span></a>CB
Online
Staff,
“PR governor signs gay rights bills,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>,
May
29, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-governor-signs-gay-rights-bills-85030.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-governor-signs-gay-rights-bills-85030.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn40">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref40" name="_edn40"
title="">40.Associated Press, </a>“Attorneys for lesbian seeking
to adopt child appeal Puerto Rico court ruling on gay adoptions,” <i>Fox
News,
</i>March
06, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/06/attorneys-for-lesbian-seeking-to-adopt-child-appeal-puerto-rico-court-ruling-on/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/06/attorneys-for-lesbian-seeking-to-adopt-child-appeal-puerto-rico-court-ruling-on/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn41">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref41" name="_edn41"
title="">41.CB Online Sta</a>ff, “Census: PR 'brain drain'
picking up,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, January 18, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/census-pr-brain-drain-picking-up-80281.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/census-pr-brain-drain-picking-up-80281.html</a>
(“[T]he
percentage of people who left the island with some sort of college or
post-secondary education rose to 50 percent in 2011 from 38 percent the
previous year. The average income of those who left the island surged
25
percent, marking the first time it has topped Puerto Rico's average
income.”);
John Marino, “Census: P.R. Migration Continues at Record Pace: Exodus
to the
States accelerates, hurting growth prospects in many industries,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, January 12,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://newamericamedia.org/2012/01/puerto-rican-migration-continues-at-record-pace.php">http://newamericamedia.org/2012/01/puerto-rican-migration-continues-at-record-pace.php</a>;
Greg
Allen,
“One-Way Tickets To Florida: Puerto Ricans Escape Island Woes,” <i>National
Public
Radio</i>, February 05, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=171061350&m=171138294">http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=171061350&m=171138294</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn42">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref42" name="_edn42" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">42.</span></a>José
A.
Delgado,
“Somos menos: Urge estudiar a fondo las consecuencias del
éxodo de
población, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, December 31, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/somosmenos-1329742.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/somosmenos-1329742.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn43">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref43" name="_edn43" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">43.</span></a>Michael
Kelly,
“THE
1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats -- Clinton and Bush Compete to Be
Champion of Change; Democrat Fights Perceptions of Bush Gain,” <i>New
York
Times</i>, October 31, 1992,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-bush-compete-be-champion-change-democrat-fights.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-bush-compete-be-champion-change-democrat-fights.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn44">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref44" name="_edn44"
title="">44.Antonio R. G</a>ómez, “Nuevos datos reflejan la dramática
crisis social de Puerto Rico”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El Departamento de la Familia reveló las
estadísticas,”<i>
El Nuevo Día</i>, May 4, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/nuevosdatosreflejanladramaticacrisissocialdepuertorico-1504244.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/nuevosdatosreflejanladramaticacrisissocialdepuertorico-1504244.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn45">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref45" name="_edn45"
title="">45.CB Online Staff, </a>“Tough job scene for new grads
in PR,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, May 7, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/tough-job-scene-for-new-grads-in-pr-84220.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/tough-job-scene-for-new-grads-in-pr-84220.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn46">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref46" name="_edn46" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">46.</span></a>“En
40%
deserción
escolar en PR, según Secretario de Educación,” <i>Noticel,</i>
March 12, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138621/en-40-desercion-escolar-en-pr-segun-secretario-de-educacion.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138621/en-40-desercion-escolar-en-pr-segun-secretario-de-educacion.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn47">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref47" name="_edn47"
title="">47.CB Online Staff, </a>“PR bankruptcies on rise in
2013,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, June 3, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-bankruptcies-on-rise-in-2013-85175.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-bankruptcies-on-rise-in-2013-85175.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn48">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref48" name="_edn48"
title="">48.Associated Press, </a>“Puerto Rico teachers protest
plan to cut retirement benefits, increase their contributions,” <i>Fox
News</i>,
March 15, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/15/puerto-rico-teachers-protest-plan-to-cut-retirement-benefits-increase-their/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/15/puerto-rico-teachers-protest-plan-to-cut-retirement-benefits-increase-their/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn49">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref49" name="_edn49"
title="">49.CB Online Staff, </a>“PR economy slips into red for
fiscal 2013,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, June 3, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-economy-slips-into-red-for-fiscal-2013-85153.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-economy-slips-into-red-for-fiscal-2013-85153.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn50">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref50" name="_edn50"
title="">50.John Marino, </a>“CNE’s concerns on economy reach new
heights,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, June 6, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/cnes-concerns-on-economy-reach-new-heights-85314.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/cnes-concerns-on-economy-reach-new-heights-85314.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn51">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref51" name="_edn51" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">51.</span></a>Limarys
Suárez
Torres,
“Casos de pena de muerte en Puerto Rico: Desde el 2003, el
tribunal federal ha visto cuatro casos para decidir si se imparte el
castigo
letal,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 23, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/casosdepenademuerteenpuertorico-1476345.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/casosdepenademuerteenpuertorico-1476345.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn52">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref52" name="_edn52"
title="">52.Editorial, </a>“A pasar la página de la pena capital,”
<i>El Nuevo Día</i>, April 28, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn53">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref53" name="_edn53" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">53.</span></a>Caribbean
Business
Online
Staff, “PR cop killer dodges death penalty,”<i> Caribbean
Business</i>, April 12, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-cop-killer-dodges-death-penalty-83186.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-cop-killer-dodges-death-penalty-83186.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>The U.S. courts operate in the
English
language, thus excluding the vast majority of Puerto Ricans from
eligibility
for jury duty. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn54">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref54" name="_edn54" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">54.</span></a>See,
e.g.,
“Concilio
de Iglesias reanuda vigilias contra pena de muerte,” <i>Telemundo</i>,
March
14, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.telemundopr.com/telenoticias/puerto-rico/Concilio-de-Iglesias-reanuda-vigilias-contra-pena-de-muerte-197962361.html?m=y&smobile=y">http://www.telemundopr.com/telenoticias/puerto-rico/Concilio-de-Iglesias-reanuda-vigilias-contra-pena-de-muerte-197962361.html?m=y&smobile=y</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn55">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref55" name="_edn55"
title="">55.Editorial, </a>“A pasar la página de la pena capital,”
<i>El Nuevo Día</i>, April 28, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn56">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref56" name="_edn56"
title="">56.</a>“Jury declines to impose death penalty in Puerto
Rico murders,” <i>Reuters</i>, March 23, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/24/us-usa-deathpenalty-puertorico-idUSBRE92N02020130324">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/24/us-usa-deathpenalty-puertorico-idUSBRE92N02020130324</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn57">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref57" name="_edn57"
title="">57.Mariana Cobi</a>án, “Juez Fusté expresa que casos de
pena de muerte son "una pérdida de tiempo," <i>Primera Hora</i>, April
17, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota/juezfusteexpresaquecasosdepenademuertesonunaperdidadetiempo-912885/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota/juezfusteexpresaquecasosdepenademuertesonunaperdidadetiempo-912885/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn58">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref58" name="_edn58"
title="">58.Editorial, </a>“A pasar la página de la pena capital,”
<i>El Nuevo Día</i>, April 28, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn59">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref59" name="_edn59" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">59.</span></a>Casa
Pueblo,
founded
in the early 1980's, is an organization of community
self-management that promotes voluntary participation, through
individual and
collective initiative, to propose and develop alternatives to protect
the
environment and affirm cultural and human values. Alexis Massol, one of
its
founders, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in recognition of
his sustained
and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://casapueblo.org/">http://casapueblo.org/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn60">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref60" name="_edn60" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">60.</span></a>Arturo
Massol
Deyá,
“Derrotado Gasoducto El pueblo venció porque de pie se lucha,” <i>Claridad</i>,
October
16,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=314A4AF0D86AEBAA1C52EC51A721AD6C">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=314A4AF0D86AEBAA1C52EC51A721AD6C</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn61">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref61" name="_edn61" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">61.</span></a>Luis
V.
Gutíerrez,
“Gasoducto: Puerto Rico's Pipeline Project Is Dead,” October
11,
2012.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn62">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref62" name="_edn62"
title="">62.</a>“Decepcionados con la EPA los opositores de
incineradora en Arecibo: Guardaban esperanza de que sus planteamientos
evitarían
el permiso,”<i> El Nuevo Día</i>, June 12, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/decepcionadosconlaepalosopositoresdeincineradoraenarecibo-1529874.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/decepcionadosconlaepalosopositoresdeincineradoraenarecibo-1529874.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn63">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref63" name="_edn63" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">63.</span></a>Gerardo
E.
Alvarado
León, “Se quedan cortas las turbinas: No producen la energía
prometida,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a
href="mailto:galvarado@elnuevodia.com"><span class="SYSHYPERTEXT"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">mailto:galvarado@elnuevodia.com</span></span></span></a></span>March
12,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/sequedancortaslasturbinas-1466913.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/sequedancortaslasturbinas-1466913.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn64">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref64" name="_edn64" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">64.</span></a>Antonio
R.
Gómez,
“García Padilla firma ley para preservar Corredor Ecológico del
Noreste,”
<i>Primera Hora</i>, April 13, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/nota/garciapadillafirmaleyparapreservarcorredorecologicodelnoreste-video-911798/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/nota/garciapadillafirmaleyparapreservarcorredorecologicodelnoreste-video-911798/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn65">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref65" name="_edn65"
title="">65.Mariana Cobi</a>án, “Buscan limitar la pesca de peces
loros para proteger corales: Las partes presentaron sus argumentos en
la sala
del juez federal Salvador Casellas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, June 12,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/buscanlimitarlapescadepeceslorosparaprotegercorales-1530163.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/buscanlimitarlapescadepeceslorosparaprotegercorales-1530163.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn66">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref66" name="_edn66"
title="">66.CB Online Staff, </a>“Report: Clock ticks on
Caribbean coral,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">September 8, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/report-clock-ticks-on-caribbean-coral-76096.html">http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/report-clock-ticks-on-caribbean-coral-76096.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn67">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref67" name="_edn67" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">67.</span></a>José
A.
Delgado,
“El incumplimiento federal con Vieques,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
May
4, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-el_incumplimiento_federal_con_vieques-1503040.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-el_incumplimiento_federal_con_vieques-1503040.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn68">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref68" name="_edn68"
title="">68.Editorial, </a>“La Marina Tiene Que Cumplir con
Vieques,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, February 25, 2013<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-lamarinatienequecumplirconvieques-1454552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-lamarinatienequecumplirconvieques-1454552.html</a>.
See
also,
Editorial, “Es Responsabilidad de la Casa Blanca,” <i>El Nuevo
Día</i>,
March 25, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-esresponsabilidaddelacasablanca-1477317.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-esresponsabilidaddelacasablanca-1477317.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn69">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref69" name="_edn69" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">69.</span></a>Unexploded
bombs
litter
waters of Vieques, Puerto Rico, a decade after the U.S. Navy
ceased target practice: The world has largely forgotten about the
devastation
the U.S. Navy left behind as the slow cleanup process continues,” <i>New
York
Daily
News</i>, May 1, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gonzalez-10-years-devastation-vieques-waters-article-1.1332740#ixzz2S8Jfoc8v">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gonzalez-10-years-devastation-vieques-waters-article-1.1332740#ixzz2S8Jfoc8v</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn70">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref70" name="_edn70" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">70.</span></a>“Punishing
Vieques:
Puerto
Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists
Expel U.S. Navy,” <i>Democracy Now</i>, May 2, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/2/punishing_vieques_puerto_rico_struggles_with">http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/2/punishing_vieques_puerto_rico_struggles_with</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn71">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref71" name="_edn71" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">71.</span></a>Maritza
Stanchich,
“Ten
Years After Ousting US Navy, Vieques Confronts Contamination,” <i>Huffington
Post</i>, May 14, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maritza-stanchich-phd/ten-years-after-ousting-u_b_3243449.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maritza-stanchich-phd/ten-years-after-ousting-u_b_3243449.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn72">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref72" name="_edn72" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">72.</span></a>Editorial,
“Indulto
Presidencial
a Oscar López Rivera,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, February 21,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-indultopresidencialaoscarlopezrivera-1453446.html#.USYWM6XZIkU.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-indultopresidencialaoscarlopezrivera-1453446.html#.USYWM6XZIkU.facebook</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn73">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref73" name="_edn73"
title="">73.</a>“Puerto Rico: celebridades se
"encarcelan" por Oscar López,” <i>BBC</i>, May 30, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2013/05/130529_ultnot_protesta_puerto_rico_oscar_lopez_jrg.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2013/05/130529_ultnot_protesta_puerto_rico_oscar_lopez_jrg.shtml</a>;<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Hermes Ayala, “Finaliza masiva
"encarcelación" por Oscar López Rivera, <i>NotiCel</i>, May 29, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noticel.com/noticia/142504/finaliza-masiva-encarcelacion-por-oscar-lopez-rivera-itinerario-y-galeria.html">http://noticel.com/noticia/142504/finaliza-masiva-encarcelacion-por-oscar-lopez-rivera-itinerario-y-galeria.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn74">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref74" name="_edn74"
title="">74.Editorial, </a>“Ya llegó la hora de liberar a Oscar,”
<i>El Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-yallegolahoradeliberaraoscar-1520995.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-yallegolahoradeliberaraoscar-1520995.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn75">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref75" name="_edn75"
title="">75.Gerardo Cordero, </a>“Ricky Martin se une a reclamo
por excarcelación de Oscar López,”<i> Primera Hora</i>, May 29, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/rickymartinseuneareclamoporexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-924977/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/rickymartinseuneareclamoporexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-924977/</a>;
David
Iaconangelo,
“Ricky Martin, Calle 13 And Other Famous Puerto Ricans
Protest Oscar López Rivera's Imprisonment In Fake Jail Cells,” <i>Latin
Times</i>,
May 30, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latintimes.com/articles/4610/20130530/ricky-martin-calle-13-famous-puerto-ricans.htm">http://www.latintimes.com/articles/4610/20130530/ricky-martin-calle-13-famous-puerto-ricans.htm</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn76">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref76" name="_edn76"
title="">76.</a>“René de Calle 13 se encarcela para pedir la
libertad de Oscar López,”<i> People en Español</i>, May 31, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/rene-de-calle-13-se-encarcela-para-pedir-libertad-oscar-lopez">http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/rene-de-calle-13-se-encarcela-para-pedir-libertad-oscar-lopez</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>(The record breaking Grammy winner
declared, “My
crime is struggling for the independence of Puerto Rico, for all human
rights,
and for the release of Oscar López.”).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn77">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref77" name="_edn77"
title="">77.CyberNews, </a>“Acevedo Vilá entre los "32 x
Oscar", la libertad de López Rivera,” <i>Noticel</i>, May 21, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noticel.com/noticia/142174/acevedo-vila-entre-los-32-x-oscar-la-libertad-de-lopez-rivera.html">http://noticel.com/noticia/142174/acevedo-vila-entre-los-32-x-oscar-la-libertad-de-lopez-rivera.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn78">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref78" name="_edn78"
title="">78.</a>“Presidente Senado de Puerto Rico pide a Obama
liberar a López Rivera: Cumple 32 Años en Prisión,” <i>Europa Press</i>,
May
29,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.europapress.es/latam/politica/noticia-puerto-rico-presidente-senado-pide-obama-excarcele-lopez-rivera-20130529211409.html">http://www.europapress.es/latam/politica/noticia-puerto-rico-presidente-senado-pide-obama-excarcele-lopez-rivera-20130529211409.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn79">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref79" name="_edn79"
title="">79.Yesenia Torres F</a>igueroa / InterNews Service, “Más
se unen a reclamo excarcelación de Oscar López: Figuras políticas y de
la vida
privada han cruzado líneas ideológicas para unirse a la causa de
solicitar
cuanto antes la excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera, <i>WAPA TV</i>,
May 29,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/locales/mas-se-unen-a-reclamo-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez_20130529141359.html">http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/locales/mas-se-unen-a-reclamo-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez_20130529141359.html</a>
(Ana
Irma Rivera Lassén, told the media, “Today, May 29, 2013, I accompany
Oscar López Rivera from this incarceration of freeing solidarity. The
Puerto
Rico Bar Assocation demands out loud, together with the voices of so<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>many others, that it’s time he comes
home. On
the day he marks 32 years of imprisonment, we celebrate his life with
joy and
lock ourselves up for his freedom. An imprisonment that unites us, even
if for
only a moment, with Oscar and his years of unjust punishment in
solitary
confinement, with the years of not seeing his closest family, his years
of
missing embraces, the years — which are gone forever — of shared
memories with
family and friends, the years during which Oscar has been gone from the
great
house of his homeland Puerto Rico.”).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn80">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref80" name="_edn80"
title="">80.</a>“Diez alcaldes y un centenar de personalidades irán
presos por la excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera, <i>80GRADOS</i>,
May 28,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.80grados.net/diez-alcaldes-y-un-centenar-de-personalidades-iran-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera">http://www.80grados.net/diez-alcaldes-y-un-centenar-de-personalidades-iran-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera</a>;
Diez
alcaldes
presos por la excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>El Periódico</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elperiodicopr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3244:diez-alcaldes-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera&catid=69:noticias&Itemid=124">http://www.elperiodicopr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3244:diez-alcaldes-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera&catid=69:noticias&Itemid=124</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn81">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref81" name="_edn81"
title="">81.See, e.g., Daniel Rivera Vargas, </a>“Obispo Rubén
González se une a pedido de excarcelación de Oscar López,” <i>Primera
Hora</i>,
May 29, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/obisporubengonzalezseuneapedidodeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-925013/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/obisporubengonzalezseuneapedidodeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-925013/</a>;
Daniel
Rivera
Vargas, Alex Figueroa Cancel, Gerardo Cordero, Darisabel Texidor
Guadalupe and Daileen Joan Rodriguez, “Figuras públicas continúan
encarcelándose
por Oscar López Rivera” Abogan por la liberación del preso político
durante
manifestación de 24 horas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook</a>
(“Another
temporary prisoner in San Juan was Catholic priest Ángel Darío
Carrero, head of the Franciscan Order in Puerto Rio and the Caribbean.
Upon
entering the cell, the priest layed down on the floor in a reflective
state and
prayed.”).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn82">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref82" name="_edn82"
title="">82.Daniel Rivera Vargas, Alex Figueroa Cancel, Gerardo
Cordero, Darisabel Texidor Guadalu</a>pe and Daileen Joan Rodriguez,
“Figuras públicas
continúan encarcelándose por Oscar López Rivera” Abogan por la
liberación del
preso político durante manifestación de 24 horas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
May
29,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook</a>
(former
major league baseball player Carlos Delgado wrote on the wall of the
cell, “I can only imagine what an incredible amount of mental strength
and
courage you [Oscar] have.”)<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn83">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref83" name="_edn83"
title="">83.</a>“Artistas cierran filas por excarcelación Oscar López
Rivera,”<i>Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular</i>, May 30, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.prpop.org/noticias/may2013/artistas-cierran-filas-por-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-5302013-1.shtml">http://www.prpop.org/noticias/may2013/artistas-cierran-filas-por-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-5302013-1.shtml</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn84">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref84" name="_edn84"
title="">84.Gerardo Cordero, </a>“Conmovida la hija de Oscar López
por apoyo al evento ‘32 x Oscar’,” <i>Primera Hora</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/conmovidalahijadeoscarlopezporapoyoalevento32xoscar-925065/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/conmovidalahijadeoscarlopezporapoyoalevento32xoscar-925065/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn85">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref85" name="_edn85"
title="">85.InterNews Service, </a>“Senado en PR por liberación
de López,” <i>El Diario/La Prensa</i>, June 1, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez">http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn86">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref86" name="_edn86" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">86.</span></a>“Oscar
López
Rivera:
After 32 Years in Prison, Calls Grow for Release of Puerto
Rican
Activist,” <i>Democracy Now</i>, May 31, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/31/oscar_lpez_rivera_after_32_years">http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/31/oscar_lpez_rivera_after_32_years</a>;
“Archbishop
Desmond
Tutu on Oscar López Rivera,”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYf7AWkaV3I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYf7AWkaV3I</a>;
“Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead
Corrigan Maguire on Oscar López Rivera,”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptWv4IzC4Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptWv4IzC4Q</a>;
“Nobel Peace Laureate and
Past
President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta,”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Dck0gVZrc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Dck0gVZrc</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn87">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref87" name="_edn87"
title="">87.See, e.g., Anthony Moujaes,</a> “UCC officers to
visit political prisoner,” <i>UCC News</i>, August 2, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ucc.org/news/ucc-officers-to-visit.html">http://www.ucc.org/news/ucc-officers-to-visit.html</a>;
“Encarcelamiento
Simbólico,”
Confederación Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Religiosos y Religiosas,
May 21,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.clar.org/clar/index.php?module=Contenido&func=viewpub&tid=2&pid=650">http://www.clar.org/clar/index.php?module=Contenido&func=viewpub&tid=2&pid=650</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn88">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref88" name="_edn88"
title="">88.See, e,g., InterNews Service, </a>“Foro Sao Paulo
apoya independencia Puerto Rico y excarcelación Oscar López Rivera y
rechaza
plebiscito,”<i> Claridad</i>, July 6, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=5DA005AC003E3A8229F8A456BEB47452">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=5DA005AC003E3A8229F8A456BEB47452</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn89">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref89" name="_edn89"
title="">89.See, e.g., </a>“García Padilla se une petición de
excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera: Figuras públicas se encierran en
celdas en
protesta, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/garciapadillaseunepeticiondeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521025.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/garciapadillaseunepeticiondeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521025.html</a>
(the
governor of Puerto Rico); Cándida Cotto, “Crece apoyo a reclamo de
libertad para Oscar López Rivera,” <i>Claridad</i>, December 11, 2012,
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=78DCECF6C444C7EA431B541D71FFB492">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=78DCECF6C444C7EA431B541D71FFB492</a>
(president
of Puerto Rico Senate, many mayors, and president of Mayor’s
Association).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn90">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref90" name="_edn90" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">90.</span></a>See,
e.g.,
“Médicos
cirujanos piden libertad de Oscar López,” <i>NotiCel</i>,
July
3, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4DFBB4C19379692964AB3D3BD8D94526">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4DFBB4C19379692964AB3D3BD8D94526</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn91">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref91" name="_edn91"
title="">91.See, e.g., C</a>ándida Cotto, “FEDECOOP apoya
excarcelación Oscar,” <i>Claridad</i>, May 14, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=670F0905B2C9E1921EACC95D63E74170">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=670F0905B2C9E1921EACC95D63E74170</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn92">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref92" name="_edn92"
title="">92.</a>“Procurador del veterano pide liberación de Oscar
López:El licenciado Agustín Montañez Allman le envió una carta al
presidente
Obama en la que le pide considere el servicio militar y los logros de
López
Rivera en la milicia,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, June 4, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/procuradordelveteranopideliberaciondeoscarlopez-1525012.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/procuradordelveteranopideliberaciondeoscarlopez-1525012.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn93">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref93" name="_edn93" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">93.</span></a>Patricia
Vargas
Casiano,
"’Quiero volar’: La reina ya se ve desplazándose por el
escenario y alcanzando la segunda corona de Miss Mundo para Puerto
Rico, <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, June 2, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/quierovolar-1523099.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/quierovolar-1523099.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn94">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref94" name="_edn94" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">94.</span></a>“Tito
Kayak
celebró
su cumpleaños remando: El activista cumplió 54 años en las
aguas
caribeñas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, July 24, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/titokayakcelebrosucumpleanosremando-1307841.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/titokayakcelebrosucumpleanosremando-1307841.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn95">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref95" name="_edn95"
title="">95.</a>“Líderes internacionales y puertorriqueños se reúnen
en San Juan en Encuentro de Derechos Humanos,” <i>Claridad</i>,
December 5,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4213BB58B400D6C533CA50BEB9D5C9DB">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4213BB58B400D6C533CA50BEB9D5C9DB</a>;<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Rebecca Banuchi, “Políticos se unen
para pedir
excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera: El boricua ha estado preso durante
31 años,”
<i>El Nuevo Día</i>, December 9, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/politicosseunenparapedirexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1404111.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/politicosseunenparapedirexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1404111.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn96">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref96" name="_edn96"
title="">96.InterNews Service, </a>“Del 21 al 24 febrero Festival
de Apoyo a Claridad dedicado a Oscar López Rivera,” <i>Claridad,</i>
February
20, 2013
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=AE438A98DD8FDFF90EF70A9501215F77">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=AE438A98DD8FDFF90EF70A9501215F77</a>;
Patricia
Rivera
Polanco, “Festival de CLARIDAD: Por la excacerlación de Oscar,”
<i>Claridad</i>, February 25, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=B4F1B9EAD6C96180EDA408BAA6B56566">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=B4F1B9EAD6C96180EDA408BAA6B56566</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn97">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref97" name="_edn97"
title="">97.See, e.g., InterNews Service, </a>“Oscar López: ‘Antesala
a la libertad’: Reabre la sala San Juan Bautista con exposición de
Óscar López ‘Antesala
a la libertad,’” <i>WAPA Television</i>, May 27, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/entretenimiento/oscar-lopez---antesala-a-la-libertad-_20130527154718.html">http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/entretenimiento/oscar-lopez---antesala-a-la-libertad-_20130527154718.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn98">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref98" name="_edn98" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">98.</span></a>See,
e.g.,
“Un
mural por Oscar,”, April 21, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.otropuertoricoesposible.org/2013/04/un-mural-por-oscar.html">http://www.otropuertoricoesposible.org/2013/04/un-mural-por-oscar.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn99">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a style=""
href="#_ednref99" name="_edn99" title=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">99.</span></a>“Carmen
Yulín
le
dedica su triunfo a Oscar López,” <i>Claridad</i>, November 14,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=D528EAC0C7F025719D68A15D4293AB2C">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=D528EAC0C7F025719D68A15D4293AB2C</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn100">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref100" name="_edn100"
title="">100.Jos</a>é A. Delgado, “García Padilla sobre Oscar López,”
<i>El Nuevo Día</i>, June 12, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-garcia_padilla_sobre_oscar_lopez-1529826.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-garcia_padilla_sobre_oscar_lopez-1529826.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn101">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref101" name="_edn101"
title="">101.</a>“Sánchez Betances confía que cambie la situación
del preso Oscar López: El secretario de Justicia de Estados Unidos,
Eric
Holder, dice que no es irrazonable la excarcelación Oscar López, <i>METRO.PR,</i>
June 13, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.metro.pr/locales/sanchez-betances-confia-que-cambie-la-situacion-del-preso-oscar-lopez/pGXmfm%21aaORunstFOUtU/">http://www.metro.pr/locales/sanchez-betances-confia-que-cambie-la-situacion-del-preso-oscar-lopez/pGXmfm!aaORunstFOUtU/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="" id="edn102">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="" href="#_ednref102" name="_edn102"
title="">102.</a>“Senado en PR por liberación de López,” <i>El
Diario/La Prensa</i>, June 1, 2013,<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez">http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">1.</span><i>Report
by the President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status</i>, March, 2011,
Executive Summary at 3,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/Puerto_Rico_Task_Force_ExecSummary.pdf">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/Puerto_Rico_Task_Force_ExecSummary.pdf</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2.“Puerto Rican Lawyer speaks at the UN
Decolonisation Committee
seminar,” <i>MercoPress</i>, May 29, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/29/puerto-rican-lawyer-speaks-at-the-un-decolonisation-committee-seminar">http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/29/puerto-rican-lawyer-speaks-at-the-un-decolonisation-committee-seminar</a>;
“Estados
Unidos
no permite la libre determinación de Puerto Rico: Abogada
puertorriqueña habla en seminario del Comité de Descolonización de la
ONU,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/estadosunidosnopermitelalibredeterminaciondepuertorico-1521049.html#.UaZrrEQ3SoM.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/estadosunidosnopermitelalibredeterminaciondepuertorico-1521049.html#.UaZrrEQ3SoM.facebook</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3.Rafael Anglada López and Olga I. Sanabria
Dávila, “El
seudo plebiscito – Un engaño sobre Puerto Rico,” <i>Red Betances</i>,
November
2, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.redbetances.com/component/content/article/51-en-portada/1319-rafael-anglada-lopez-y-olga-i-sanabria-davila.html">http://www.redbetances.com/component/content/article/51-en-portada/1319-rafael-anglada-lopez-y-olga-i-sanabria-davila.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt -5.4pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4.Ed Morales, “The Puerto Rico Plebiscite That
Wasn't,” <i>ABC
News</i>, November 8, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY">http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5.Ed Morales, “The Puerto Rico Plebiscite That
Wasn't,” <i>ABC
News</i>, November 8, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY">http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">6.</span>Danica
Coto, Associated Press, “PR seeks to solve status issue,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:cb.pr@gmail.com"><span
class="SYSHYPERTEXT"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span
style="color: black;">mailto:cb.pr@gmail.com</span></span></span></a></span>November
4,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-seeks-to-solve-status-issue-78257.html">http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-seeks-to-solve-status-issue-78257.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">7.</span>Danica
Coto, “Puerto Rico votes to change relationship with US; majority wants
statehood,” <i>MSNBC</i>, November 8, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49737548/#.UJyTReRfDN9">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49737548/#.UJyTReRfDN9</a>;
see also,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://prfaa.pr.gov/espanol/noticias/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Resolucion-Concurrente-24.pdf">http://prfaa.pr.gov/espanol/noticias/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Resolucion-Concurrente-24.pdf</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8.Ed Morales, “The Puerto Rico Plebiscite That
Wasn't,” <i>ABC
News</i>, November 8, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY">http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Opinion/puerto-rico-status-plebiscite/story?id=17674719&singlePage=true#.UYMtJ6I2xbY</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">9.</span>Jack
Kenny, “Puerto Rico Vote for Statehood Questioned,”<i> New American</i>,
November
8,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13568-puerto-rico-vote-for-statehood-questioned">http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13568-puerto-rico-vote-for-statehood-questioned</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.José A. Delgado, “Casa Blanca dice que no hubo
un mandato
a favor de la estadidad: Portavoz hace nuevos comentarios sobre los
resultados
del plebiscito de status,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, December 3, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/casablancadicequenohubounmandatoafavordelaestadidad-1400069.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/casablancadicequenohubounmandatoafavordelaestadidad-1400069.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11.CB Online Staff, “PR status plebiscite in Obama
budget,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, April 10, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-status-plebiscite-in-obama-budget-83109.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-status-plebiscite-in-obama-budget-83109.html</a>;
Danica
Coto,
Associated Press, “US Seeks to Fund New Puerto Rico Status
Plebiscite,” <i>ABC News</i>, April 11, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-seeks-fund-puerto-rico-status-plebiscite-18927565#.UWgDDKLpVbY">http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-seeks-fund-puerto-rico-status-plebiscite-18927565#.UWgDDKLpVbY</a>;
“Obama
destinará
más de $2 millones para plebiscito en la Isla,” <i>Metro</i>,
April
10, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.metro.pr/mundo/obama-destinara-mas-de-2-millones-para-plebiscito-en-la-isla/pGXmdj%21wBO01fXtIT0I/">http://www.metro.pr/mundo/obama-destinara-mas-de-2-millones-para-plebiscito-en-la-isla/pGXmdj!wBO01fXtIT0I/</a><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12.“Bill in U.S. Congress seeks vote on Puerto
Rican
statehood,” <i>Reuters</i>, May 15, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-usa-puertorico-status-idUSBRE94E11320130515">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-usa-puertorico-status-idUSBRE94E11320130515</a>;
See,
e.g.,
Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez on Puerto Rico Status Legislation,
May
15, 2013, (“Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) made the following statement
regarding Puerto Rico status legislation introduced in the House today:
‘If we
are to fairly resolve the issue of Puerto Rico's status, we must find a
framework for true self-determination. The 'Puerto Rico Status
Resolution Act'
being introduced today fails that test in every aspect: it denies
Puerto Ricans
a true vehicle for self-determination and fabricates a superficial
majority in
favor of statehood.’”); CB Online Staff, “Gutiérrez: Status bill does
nothing
for PR,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, May 15, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/gutierrez-status-bill-does-nothing-for-pr-84597.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/gutierrez-status-bill-does-nothing-for-pr-84597.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">13.</span>Eugenio
Hopgood Dávila, “Sí” a que Pesquera se quede: El superintendente,
entretanto,
guarda silencio sobre sus planes,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 2, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/siaquepesquerasequede-1460174.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/siaquepesquerasequede-1460174.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">14.“Departamento de Justicia Federal demanda a la
Policía de
Puerto Rico: La acción se basa en una investigación comenzada en 2008,
que
reveló que la Uniformada ha violado los derechos civiles a la
ciudadanía,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, December 21, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/departamentodejusticiafederaldemandaalapoliciadepuertorico-1413140.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/departamentodejusticiafederaldemandaalapoliciadepuertorico-1413140.html</a>;
CB
Online
Staff, “PR, feds negotiate costly police reform,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, May 21, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-feds-negotiate-costly-police-reform-84759.html.The">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-feds-negotiate-costly-police-reform-84759.html.The</a>
U.S.
DOJ intervention is ironic, given that former agents of its own FBI
have
administered the Puerto Rico Police Department for decades, and that
Puerto
Rico police receive training from the U.S.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15.Belén Fernández, “Puerto Rico's outlaw police
force:
Police in the US territory have been accused of civil rights abuses and
overzealous crackdowns on peaceful protests,” <i>Aljazeera</i>, June
26, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/06/2012620112025706894.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/06/2012620112025706894.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">16.Ivelisse Rivera Quiñones, “FBI gradúa a civiles
en
academia especial: Unos 20 ciudadanos conocieron el funcionamiento de
esta
agencia,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 10, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbigraduaacivilesenacademiaespecial-1465608.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbigraduaacivilesenacademiaespecial-1465608.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17.See, e.g., Alex Figueroa Cancel, “Desarticulan
ganga de
narcos de lujo: Federales diligencian 21 órdenes de arresto por cargos
de
narcotráfico y lavado de dinero,”<i> El Nuevo Día</i>, September 26,
2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulangangadenarcosdelujo-1351338.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulangangadenarcosdelujo-1351338.html</a>;
“Megaoperativo
federal
en Río Piedras,” <i>NotiCel</i>, February 28, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138011/megaoperativo-federal-en-rio-piedras.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138011/megaoperativo-federal-en-rio-piedras.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">18.“Fortuño exige acción a los federales para
combatir
narcotráfico,” <i>Primera Hora</i>, January 13, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/fortunoexigeaccionalosfederalesparacombatirnarcotrafico-602227.html">http://www.primerahora.com/fortunoexigeaccionalosfederalesparacombatirnarcotrafico-602227.html</a>
(“‘The
federal security agencies in Puerto Rico lack the necessary resources
to
combat the illegal entry of drugs and to guarantee the security of the
Puerto
Rican people. This is a matter of national security. Puerto Rico
deserves to be
treated the same as the 50 states, and the disproportionate amount of
resources
is what is generating repercussions in the increase of drug trafficking
in the
region. The level of violence caused by drug trafficking that exists
today is
without precedent, and is directly tied to the Island’s position as the
center
of the unprotected border of the Caribbean,’ wrote the Governor in one
of his
letters. The Chief Executive pointed out that given the
disproportionate levels
of violent crime existing in Puerto Rico, compared with other other
states on
the border with Mexico, there is evidence that federal law enforcement
agencies
on the Island need to be strengthened.”); José A. Delgado, “Escala en
Washington el reclamo de seguridad: Pierluisi se reúne con Seguridad
Interna,”
El Nuevo Día, January 18, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/escalaenwashingtonelreclamo-1168032.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/escalaenwashingtonelreclamo-1168032.html</a>;
InterNews
Service,
“Homeland Security undersecretary met with Pierluisi,” <i>Puerto
Rico
Daily Sun</i>, January 18, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Homeland-Security-undersecretary-met-with-Pierluisi">http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Homeland-Security-undersecretary-met-with-Pierluisi</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">19.“Pesquera: Estados Unidos está "jodido" si no
ayuda a PR con la criminalidad,” NotiCel, March 28, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/139468/pesquera-estados-unidos-esta-jodido-si-no-ayuda-a-pr-con-la-criminalidad.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/139468/pesquera-estados-unidos-esta-jodido-si-no-ayuda-a-pr-con-la-criminalidad.html</a>;
“Reclaman
más
recursos contra el narcotráfico en Puerto Rico: Comité del Senado
acoge iniciativa del comisionado Pierluisi, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March
12,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/reclamanmasrecursoscontraelnarcotraficoenpuertorico-1467842.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/reclamanmasrecursoscontraelnarcotraficoenpuertorico-1467842.html</a>;
Gerardo
Cordero,
“Fortuño quiere más agentes federales en Puerto Rico: La
aspiración máxima del gobernador sería lograr lo que han denominado
iniciativa
de la frontera del Caribe,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, September 19, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fortunoquieremasagentesfederalesenpuertorico-1347505.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fortunoquieremasagentesfederalesenpuertorico-1347505.html</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">20.</span>See,
e.g., “Desarticulan narcogangas más de 200 federales: Intervienen en
cinco residenciales
de Arecibo, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 21, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulannarcogangasmasde200federales-1474512.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/desarticulannarcogangasmasde200federales-1474512.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">21.Yaritza Santiago, “Alarman los métodos del
gobierno federal:
Operativos en sitios públicos ponen en riesgo vidas inocentes,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>,
July 29, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/alarmanlosmetodosdelgobiernofederal-1310503.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/alarmanlosmetodosdelgobiernofederal-1310503.html</a>
(federal
law enforcement pattern of opening fire in busy shopping malls,
endangering the surrounding public).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">22.CB Online Staff, “Obama budget has $95M for FBI
facility
in PR,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, April 10, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/obama-budget-has-$95m-for-fbi-facility-in-pr-83141.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/obama-budget-has-$95m-for-fbi-facility-in-pr-83141.html</a>
(estimated
total cost of the project: $106.6 million).<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">23.See, e.g., Oscar J. Serrano, “DEA discrimina
contra
agentes boricuas,” <i>Noticel</i>, February 6, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/117743/dea-discrimina-contra-agentes-boricuas.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/117743/dea-discrimina-contra-agentes-boricuas.html</a>
(ten
Puerto Rican agents employed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration
sued that agency for systematic discrimination, alleging that they
receive
lower salaries than their U.S. counterparts, and that they are used as
“cannon
fodder” during investigations, while their U.S. counterparts are not
exposed to
danger). See also, Alex Figueroa Cancel, “Denuncian discrimen contra
veteranos
puertorriqueños: Alegan en foro que no reciben el mismo trato que en
EE.UU.,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, September 11, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/denunciandiscrimencontraveteranospuertorriquenos-1341378.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/denunciandiscrimencontraveteranospuertorriquenos-1341378.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">24.See, e.g., Alex Figueroa Cancel, “FBI investiga
casos de
corrupción pública: Aseguran que será prioridad,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
February
11, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigacasosdecorrupcionpublica-1446068.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigacasosdecorrupcionpublica-1446068.html</a>;
Limarys
Suárez
Torres, “FBI investiga a alguaciles federales y policías locales
en Puerto Rico: Por la presunta violación de derechos civiles, <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>,
December 29, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigaaalguacilesfederalesypoliciaslocalesenpuertorico-1416899.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/fbiinvestigaaalguacilesfederalesypoliciaslocalesenpuertorico-1416899.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">25.Joanisabel González, “Pesquisa federal al Banco
Gubernamental de Fomento: El regulador federal realiza pesquisa por
transacciones de Retiro y Carreteras,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, May 3,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/pesquisafederalalbancogubernamentaldefomento-1503074.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/pesquisafederalalbancogubernamentaldefomento-1503074.html</a>;
Alex
Figueroa
Cancel, “Operativo federal contra organización dedicada al
fraude
bancario: Diligencian 42 órdenes de arresto en nueve<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>municipios y seis estados,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, May 24, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/operativofederalporfraudebancario-1518175.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/operativofederalporfraudebancario-1518175.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">26.</span>Antonio
R. Gómez, “Federales ampliaron pesquisa tras intervención en la UPR: La
orden
que tramitaron ayer oficiales del gobierno federal representa una
ampliación y
profundización de la pesquisa,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, April 27, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesampliaronpesquisatrasintervencionenlaupr-1499608.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesampliaronpesquisatrasintervencionenlaupr-1499608.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">27.</span>Federales
protegen coquí a punto de desaparecer: El coquí llanero es declarado en
peligro
de extinción,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, October 4, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesprotegencoquiapuntodedesaparecer-1356894.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/federalesprotegencoquiapuntodedesaparecer-1356894.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">28.See, e.g., “Hostigamiento y persecución a
independentistas puertorriqueños que viajan a países latinoamericanos,”
Fundación
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, April 14, 2010,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/04/14/persecucion-contra-independentistas-puerto-rico/">http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/04/14/persecucion-contra-independentistas-puerto-rico/</a>;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">José A. Delgado, “Soberanista pasa malrato en
Inmigración:
Manuel Rivera relata que lo interrogan sobre reuniones de política en
España,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, October 23, 2010, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/soberanistapasamalratoeninmigracion-803681.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/soberanistapasamalratoeninmigracion-803681.html</a>;
CyberNews,
“Impiden
salida del país a líder nacionalista,” <i>Noticel</i>, June
6, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noticel.com/noticia/141387/impiden-salida-del-pais-a-lider-nacionalista.html">http://noticel.com/noticia/141387/impiden-salida-del-pais-a-lider-nacionalista.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">29.</span>José
A. Delgado, “Más pobres y más PAN en la Isla: Llegan a $2,056 millones
los
fondos del PAN, $400 millones más que los del 2008,” El Nuevo Día,
October 28,
2012, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspobresymaspanenlaisla-1372815.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspobresymaspanenlaisla-1372815.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">30.José A. Delgado, “Inyectan millones de dólares
para
mejoras a carreteras y puentes en Puerto Rico: Los fondos son parte de
$473
millones que nunca fueron entregados a 49 estados, Washington D.C. y
Puerto
Rico,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, August 17, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/inyectanmillonesdedolaresparamejorasacarreterasypuentesenpuertorico-1324796.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/inyectanmillonesdedolaresparamejorasacarreterasypuentesenpuertorico-1324796.html</a>;
CB
Online
Staff, “$3.5M in federal funds for PR roads,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
February 16, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$3.5m-in-federal-funds-for-pr-roads-81217.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$3.5m-in-federal-funds-for-pr-roads-81217.html</a>;
CB
Online
Staff, “$26.8M for VA Hospital parking lot,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
October 8, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$26.8m-for-va-hospital-parking-lot-77217.html">http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$26.8m-for-va-hospital-parking-lot-77217.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">31.</span>“US
Labor Dep’t grants funds for re-employment,” <i>Puerto Rico Daily Sun</i>,
May
8,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.prdailysun.com/news/US-Labor-Dept-grants-funds-for-re-employment">http://www.prdailysun.com/news/US-Labor-Dept-grants-funds-for-re-employment</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">32.</span>CB
Online Staff, “PR gets $249K to protect wetlands,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
February 11, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-gets-$249k-to-protect-wetlands-81015.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-gets-$249k-to-protect-wetlands-81015.html</a>;
José
A.
Delgado, “EPA asigna fondos para aguas limpias: Distribuye $46
millones
a oficinas en Puerto Rico, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, October 20, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/epaasignafondosparaaguaslimpias-1367123.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/epaasignafondosparaaguaslimpias-1367123.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">33.</span>See,
e.g., Antonio R. Gómez, “Alega una “falta de cortesía”: Perelló truena
contra
la FAA, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, February 27, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/alegaunafaltadecortesia-1457308.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/alegaunafaltadecortesia-1457308.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">34.Editorial, “Previsiones Ante Recorte Federal,” <i>El
Nuevo
Día</i>, March 4, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-previsionesanterecortefederal-1461028.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-previsionesanterecortefederal-1461028.html</a>
(An
editorial in Puerto Rico’s main daily newspaper warned “Without any
agreement in the U.S. capital, where the Island has no decisive power,
a
drastic package of budget cuts has begun, known as the ‘sequester,’”
which will
impose an austerity program affecting essential services in Puerto Rico
funded
by the U.S. in the areas of education, defense, public health,
environmental,
and violence against women. “More than 300 university students could
lose
financial aid funding, more than 2,300 might be left without access to
work
study programs, some 2,400 Head Start children may have no classes,
some 70
educators could lose their jobs, and some 300 women victims of domestic
violence could lose vital survival servies, among others.”).<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">35.Carlos Gallisá, “Federalización de las
elecciones,” <i>Claridad</i>,
October 23, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=95A67941914FA440A47E152E762F2DD9">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=95A67941914FA440A47E152E762F2DD9</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">36.CB Online Staff, “Federal government adds 2 PR
sites to
list of national historic landmarks,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, March
11,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">37.</span>Yaritza
Santiago
Caraballo, “Batalla de David contra Goliat: El PNP invirtió miles en el
“Sí”,
pero los del “No” apenas gastaron,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, August 18,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/batalladedavidcontragoliat-1324968.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/batalladedavidcontragoliat-1324968.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">38.Israel Rodríguez Sánchez, “Lección para el
poderoso: El
país rechazó la propaganda y defendió los derechos,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
August
20,
2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/leccionparaelpoderoso-1326262.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/leccionparaelpoderoso-1326262.html</a>;
Ed
Morales,
“No Means No: A People's Victory in Puerto Rico,” August 20,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://emorales7.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/no-means-no-a-peoples-victory-in-puerto-rico/">http://emorales7.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/no-means-no-a-peoples-victory-in-puerto-rico/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">39.</span>CB
Online Staff, “PR governor signs gay rights bills,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>,
May 29, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-governor-signs-gay-rights-bills-85030.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-governor-signs-gay-rights-bills-85030.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">40.Associated Press, “Attorneys for lesbian
seeking to adopt
child appeal Puerto Rico court ruling on gay adoptions,” <i>Fox News, </i>March
06,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/06/attorneys-for-lesbian-seeking-to-adopt-child-appeal-puerto-rico-court-ruling-on/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/06/attorneys-for-lesbian-seeking-to-adopt-child-appeal-puerto-rico-court-ruling-on/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">41.CB Online Staff, “Census: PR 'brain drain'
picking up,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, January 18, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/census-pr-brain-drain-picking-up-80281.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/census-pr-brain-drain-picking-up-80281.html</a>
(“[T]he
percentage of people who left the island with some sort of college or
post-secondary education rose to 50 percent in 2011 from 38 percent the
previous year. The average income of those who left the island surged
25
percent, marking the first time it has topped Puerto Rico's average
income.”);
John Marino, “Census: P.R. Migration Continues at Record Pace: Exodus
to the
States accelerates, hurting growth prospects in many industries,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, January 12,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://newamericamedia.org/2012/01/puerto-rican-migration-continues-at-record-pace.php">http://newamericamedia.org/2012/01/puerto-rican-migration-continues-at-record-pace.php</a>;
Greg
Allen,
“One-Way Tickets To Florida: Puerto Ricans Escape Island Woes,” <i>National
Public
Radio</i>, February 05, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=171061350&m=171138294">http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=171061350&m=171138294</a>.
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">42.</span>José
A. Delgado, “Somos menos: Urge estudiar a fondo las consecuencias del
éxodo de
población, <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, December 31, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/somosmenos-1329742.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/somosmenos-1329742.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">43.</span>Michael
Kelly, “THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats -- Clinton and Bush Compete to
Be
Champion of Change; Democrat Fights Perceptions of Bush Gain,” <i>New
York
Times</i>, October 31, 1992,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-bush-compete-be-champion-change-democrat-fights.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-bush-compete-be-champion-change-democrat-fights.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">44.Antonio R. Gómez, “Nuevos datos reflejan la
dramática
crisis social de Puerto Rico”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El Departamento de la Familia reveló las
estadísticas,”<i>
El Nuevo Día</i>, May 4, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/nuevosdatosreflejanladramaticacrisissocialdepuertorico-1504244.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/nuevosdatosreflejanladramaticacrisissocialdepuertorico-1504244.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">45.CB Online Staff, “Tough job scene for new grads
in PR,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, May 7, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/tough-job-scene-for-new-grads-in-pr-84220.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/tough-job-scene-for-new-grads-in-pr-84220.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">46.</span>“En
40% deserción escolar en PR, según Secretario de Educación,” <i>Noticel,</i>
March 12, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138621/en-40-desercion-escolar-en-pr-segun-secretario-de-educacion.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/138621/en-40-desercion-escolar-en-pr-segun-secretario-de-educacion.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">47.CB Online Staff, “PR bankruptcies on rise in
2013,” <i>Caribbean
Business</i>, June 3, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-bankruptcies-on-rise-in-2013-85175.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-bankruptcies-on-rise-in-2013-85175.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">48.Associated Press, “Puerto Rico teachers protest
plan to
cut retirement benefits, increase their contributions,” <i>Fox News</i>,
March
15,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/15/puerto-rico-teachers-protest-plan-to-cut-retirement-benefits-increase-their/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/15/puerto-rico-teachers-protest-plan-to-cut-retirement-benefits-increase-their/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">49.CB Online Staff, “PR economy slips into red for
fiscal
2013,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, June 3, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-economy-slips-into-red-for-fiscal-2013-85153.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-economy-slips-into-red-for-fiscal-2013-85153.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">50.John Marino, “CNE’s concerns on economy reach
new
heights,” <i>Caribbean Business</i>, June 6, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/cnes-concerns-on-economy-reach-new-heights-85314.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/cnes-concerns-on-economy-reach-new-heights-85314.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">51.</span>Limarys
Suárez Torres, “Casos de pena de muerte en Puerto Rico: Desde el 2003,
el
tribunal federal ha visto cuatro casos para decidir si se imparte el
castigo
letal,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, March 23, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/casosdepenademuerteenpuertorico-1476345.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/casosdepenademuerteenpuertorico-1476345.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">52.Editorial, “A pasar la página de la pena
capital,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, April 28, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">53.</span>Caribbean
Business Online Staff, “PR cop killer dodges death penalty,”<i>
Caribbean
Business</i>, April 12, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-cop-killer-dodges-death-penalty-83186.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-cop-killer-dodges-death-penalty-83186.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>The U.S. courts operate in the
English
language, thus excluding the vast majority of Puerto Ricans from
eligibility
for jury duty. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">54.</span>See,
e.g., “Concilio de Iglesias reanuda vigilias contra pena de muerte,” <i>Telemundo</i>,
March
14,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.telemundopr.com/telenoticias/puerto-rico/Concilio-de-Iglesias-reanuda-vigilias-contra-pena-de-muerte-197962361.html?m=y&smobile=y">http://www.telemundopr.com/telenoticias/puerto-rico/Concilio-de-Iglesias-reanuda-vigilias-contra-pena-de-muerte-197962361.html?m=y&smobile=y</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">55.Editorial, “A pasar la página de la pena
capital,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, April 28, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">56.“Jury declines to impose death penalty in
Puerto Rico
murders,” <i>Reuters</i>, March 23, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/24/us-usa-deathpenalty-puertorico-idUSBRE92N02020130324">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/24/us-usa-deathpenalty-puertorico-idUSBRE92N02020130324</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">57.Mariana Cobián, “Juez Fusté expresa que casos
de pena de
muerte son "una pérdida de tiempo," <i>Primera Hora</i>, April 17,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota/juezfusteexpresaquecasosdepenademuertesonunaperdidadetiempo-912885/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota/juezfusteexpresaquecasosdepenademuertesonunaperdidadetiempo-912885/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">58.Editorial, “A pasar la página de la pena
capital,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, April 28, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">59.</span>Casa
Pueblo, founded in the early 1980's, is an organization of community
self-management that promotes voluntary participation, through
individual and
collective initiative, to propose and develop alternatives to protect
the
environment and affirm cultural and human values. Alexis Massol, one of
its
founders, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in recognition of
his sustained
and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://casapueblo.org/">http://casapueblo.org/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">60.</span>Arturo
Massol Deyá, “Derrotado Gasoducto El pueblo venció porque de pie se
lucha,” <i>Claridad</i>,
October 16, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=314A4AF0D86AEBAA1C52EC51A721AD6C">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=314A4AF0D86AEBAA1C52EC51A721AD6C</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">61.</span>Luis
V. Gutíerrez, “Gasoducto: Puerto Rico's Pipeline Project Is Dead,”
October 11,
2012.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">62.“Decepcionados con la EPA los opositores de
incineradora
en Arecibo: Guardaban esperanza de que sus planteamientos evitarían el
permiso,”<i>
El Nuevo Día</i>, June 12, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/decepcionadosconlaepalosopositoresdeincineradoraenarecibo-1529874.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/decepcionadosconlaepalosopositoresdeincineradoraenarecibo-1529874.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">63.</span>Gerardo
E. Alvarado León, “Se quedan cortas las turbinas: No producen la
energía
prometida,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a
href="mailto:galvarado@elnuevodia.com"><span class="SYSHYPERTEXT"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">mailto:galvarado@elnuevodia.com</span></span></span></a></span>March
12,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/sequedancortaslasturbinas-1466913.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/sequedancortaslasturbinas-1466913.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">64.</span>Antonio
R. Gómez, “García Padilla firma ley para preservar Corredor Ecológico
del Noreste,”
<i>Primera Hora</i>, April 13, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/nota/garciapadillafirmaleyparapreservarcorredorecologicodelnoreste-video-911798/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/nota/garciapadillafirmaleyparapreservarcorredorecologicodelnoreste-video-911798/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">65.Mariana Cobián, “Buscan limitar la pesca de
peces loros
para proteger corales: Las partes presentaron sus argumentos en la sala
del
juez federal Salvador Casellas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, June 12, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/buscanlimitarlapescadepeceslorosparaprotegercorales-1530163.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/buscanlimitarlapescadepeceslorosparaprotegercorales-1530163.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">66.CB Online Staff, “Report: Clock ticks on
Caribbean coral,”
<i>Caribbean Business</i>, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">September 8, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/report-clock-ticks-on-caribbean-coral-76096.html">http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/report-clock-ticks-on-caribbean-coral-76096.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">67.</span>José
A. Delgado, “El incumplimiento federal con Vieques,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
May
4,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-el_incumplimiento_federal_con_vieques-1503040.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-el_incumplimiento_federal_con_vieques-1503040.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">68.Editorial, “La Marina Tiene Que Cumplir con
Vieques,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, February 25, 2013<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-lamarinatienequecumplirconvieques-1454552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-lamarinatienequecumplirconvieques-1454552.html</a>.
See
also,
Editorial, “Es Responsabilidad de la Casa Blanca,” <i>El Nuevo
Día</i>,
March 25, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-esresponsabilidaddelacasablanca-1477317.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-esresponsabilidaddelacasablanca-1477317.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">69.</span>Unexploded
bombs litter waters of Vieques, Puerto Rico, a decade after the U.S.
Navy
ceased target practice: The world has largely forgotten about the
devastation
the U.S. Navy left behind as the slow cleanup process continues,” <i>New
York
Daily
News</i>, May 1, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gonzalez-10-years-devastation-vieques-waters-article-1.1332740#ixzz2S8Jfoc8v">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gonzalez-10-years-devastation-vieques-waters-article-1.1332740#ixzz2S8Jfoc8v</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">70.</span>“Punishing
Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After
Activists
Expel U.S. Navy,” <i>Democracy Now</i>, May 2, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/2/punishing_vieques_puerto_rico_struggles_with">http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/2/punishing_vieques_puerto_rico_struggles_with</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">71.</span>Maritza
Stanchich, “Ten Years After Ousting US Navy, Vieques Confronts
Contamination,” <i>Huffington
Post</i>, May 14, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maritza-stanchich-phd/ten-years-after-ousting-u_b_3243449.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maritza-stanchich-phd/ten-years-after-ousting-u_b_3243449.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">72.</span>Editorial,
“Indulto Presidencial a Oscar López Rivera,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
February 21,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-indultopresidencialaoscarlopezrivera-1453446.html#.USYWM6XZIkU.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-indultopresidencialaoscarlopezrivera-1453446.html#.USYWM6XZIkU.facebook</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">73.“Puerto Rico: celebridades se "encarcelan" por
Oscar López,” <i>BBC</i>, May 30, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2013/05/130529_ultnot_protesta_puerto_rico_oscar_lopez_jrg.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2013/05/130529_ultnot_protesta_puerto_rico_oscar_lopez_jrg.shtml</a>;<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Hermes Ayala, “Finaliza masiva
"encarcelación" por Oscar López Rivera, <i>NotiCel</i>, May 29, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noticel.com/noticia/142504/finaliza-masiva-encarcelacion-por-oscar-lopez-rivera-itinerario-y-galeria.html">http://noticel.com/noticia/142504/finaliza-masiva-encarcelacion-por-oscar-lopez-rivera-itinerario-y-galeria.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">74.Editorial, “Ya llegó la hora de liberar a
Oscar,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-yallegolahoradeliberaraoscar-1520995.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-yallegolahoradeliberaraoscar-1520995.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">75.Gerardo Cordero, “Ricky Martin se une a reclamo
por
excarcelación de Oscar López,”<i> Primera Hora</i>, May 29, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/rickymartinseuneareclamoporexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-924977/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/rickymartinseuneareclamoporexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-924977/</a>;
David
Iaconangelo,
“Ricky Martin, Calle 13 And Other Famous Puerto Ricans
Protest Oscar López Rivera's Imprisonment In Fake Jail Cells,” <i>Latin
Times</i>,
May 30, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latintimes.com/articles/4610/20130530/ricky-martin-calle-13-famous-puerto-ricans.htm">http://www.latintimes.com/articles/4610/20130530/ricky-martin-calle-13-famous-puerto-ricans.htm</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">76.“René de Calle 13 se encarcela para pedir la
libertad de
Oscar López,”<i> People en Español</i>, May 31, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/rene-de-calle-13-se-encarcela-para-pedir-libertad-oscar-lopez">http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/rene-de-calle-13-se-encarcela-para-pedir-libertad-oscar-lopez</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>(The record breaking Grammy winner
declared, “My
crime is struggling for the independence of Puerto Rico, for all human
rights,
and for the release of Oscar López.”).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">77.CyberNews, “Acevedo Vilá entre los "32 x
Oscar", la libertad de López Rivera,” <i>Noticel</i>, May 21, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noticel.com/noticia/142174/acevedo-vila-entre-los-32-x-oscar-la-libertad-de-lopez-rivera.html">http://noticel.com/noticia/142174/acevedo-vila-entre-los-32-x-oscar-la-libertad-de-lopez-rivera.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">78.“Presidente Senado de Puerto Rico pide a Obama
liberar a
López Rivera: Cumple 32 Años en Prisión,” <i>Europa Press</i>, May 29,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.europapress.es/latam/politica/noticia-puerto-rico-presidente-senado-pide-obama-excarcele-lopez-rivera-20130529211409.html">http://www.europapress.es/latam/politica/noticia-puerto-rico-presidente-senado-pide-obama-excarcele-lopez-rivera-20130529211409.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">79.Yesenia Torres Figueroa / InterNews Service,
“Más se unen
a reclamo excarcelación de Oscar López: Figuras políticas y de la vida
privada
han cruzado líneas ideológicas para unirse a la causa de solicitar
cuanto antes
la excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera, <i>WAPA TV</i>, May 29, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/locales/mas-se-unen-a-reclamo-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez_20130529141359.html">http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/locales/mas-se-unen-a-reclamo-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez_20130529141359.html</a>
(Ana
Irma Rivera Lassén, told the media, “Today, May 29, 2013, I accompany
Oscar López Rivera from this incarceration of freeing solidarity. The
Puerto
Rico Bar Assocation demands out loud, together with the voices of so<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>many others, that it’s time he comes
home. On
the day he marks 32 years of imprisonment, we celebrate his life with
joy and
lock ourselves up for his freedom. An imprisonment that unites us, even
if for
only a moment, with Oscar and his years of unjust punishment in
solitary
confinement, with the years of not seeing his closest family, his years
of
missing embraces, the years — which are gone forever — of shared
memories with
family and friends, the years during which Oscar has been gone from the
great
house of his homeland Puerto Rico.”).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">80.“Diez alcaldes y un centenar de personalidades
irán
presos por la excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera, <i>80GRADOS</i>,
May 28,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.80grados.net/diez-alcaldes-y-un-centenar-de-personalidades-iran-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera">http://www.80grados.net/diez-alcaldes-y-un-centenar-de-personalidades-iran-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera</a>;
Diez
alcaldes
presos por la excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>El Periódico</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elperiodicopr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3244:diez-alcaldes-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera&catid=69:noticias&Itemid=124">http://www.elperiodicopr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3244:diez-alcaldes-presos-por-la-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera&catid=69:noticias&Itemid=124</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">81.See, e.g., Daniel Rivera Vargas, “Obispo Rubén
González
se une a pedido de excarcelación de Oscar López,” <i>Primera Hora</i>,
May 29,
2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/obisporubengonzalezseuneapedidodeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-925013/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/obisporubengonzalezseuneapedidodeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopez-925013/</a>;
Daniel
Rivera
Vargas, Alex Figueroa Cancel, Gerardo Cordero, Darisabel Texidor
Guadalupe and Daileen Joan Rodriguez, “Figuras públicas continúan
encarcelándose
por Oscar López Rivera” Abogan por la liberación del preso político
durante
manifestación de 24 horas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook</a>
(“Another
temporary prisoner in San Juan was Catholic priest Ángel Darío
Carrero, head of the Franciscan Order in Puerto Rio and the Caribbean.
Upon
entering the cell, the priest layed down on the floor in a reflective
state and
prayed.”).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">82.Daniel Rivera Vargas, Alex Figueroa Cancel,
Gerardo
Cordero, Darisabel Texidor Guadalupe and Daileen Joan Rodriguez,
“Figuras públicas
continúan encarcelándose por Oscar López Rivera” Abogan por la
liberación del
preso político durante manifestación de 24 horas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>,
May
29,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook">http://www.elnuevodia.com/maspresosporlaexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521005.html#.UaYZKMmCAWA.facebook</a>
(former
major league baseball player Carlos Delgado wrote on the wall of the
cell, “I can only imagine what an incredible amount of mental strength
and
courage you [Oscar] have.”)<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">83.“Artistas cierran filas por excarcelación Oscar
López
Rivera,”<i>Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular</i>, May 30, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.prpop.org/noticias/may2013/artistas-cierran-filas-por-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-5302013-1.shtml">http://www.prpop.org/noticias/may2013/artistas-cierran-filas-por-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-5302013-1.shtml</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">84.Gerardo Cordero, “Conmovida la hija de Oscar
López por
apoyo al evento ‘32 x Oscar’,” <i>Primera Hora</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/conmovidalahijadeoscarlopezporapoyoalevento32xoscar-925065/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/conmovidalahijadeoscarlopezporapoyoalevento32xoscar-925065/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">85.InterNews Service, “Senado en PR por liberación
de López,”
<i>El Diario/La Prensa</i>, June 1, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez">http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">86.</span>“Oscar
López Rivera: After 32 Years in Prison, Calls Grow for Release of
Puerto Rican
Activist,” <i>Democracy Now</i>, May 31, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/31/oscar_lpez_rivera_after_32_years">http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/31/oscar_lpez_rivera_after_32_years</a>;
“Archbishop
Desmond
Tutu on Oscar López Rivera,”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYf7AWkaV3I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYf7AWkaV3I</a>;
“Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead
Corrigan Maguire on Oscar López Rivera,”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptWv4IzC4Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptWv4IzC4Q</a>;
“Nobel Peace Laureate and
Past
President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta,”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Dck0gVZrc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Dck0gVZrc</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">87.See, e.g., Anthony Moujaes, “UCC officers to
visit
political prisoner,” <i>UCC News</i>, August 2, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ucc.org/news/ucc-officers-to-visit.html">http://www.ucc.org/news/ucc-officers-to-visit.html</a>;
“Encarcelamiento
Simbólico,”
Confederación Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Religiosos y Religiosas,
May 21,
2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.clar.org/clar/index.php?module=Contenido&func=viewpub&tid=2&pid=650">http://www.clar.org/clar/index.php?module=Contenido&func=viewpub&tid=2&pid=650</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">88.See, e,g., InterNews Service, “Foro Sao Paulo
apoya
independencia Puerto Rico y excarcelación Oscar López Rivera y rechaza
plebiscito,”<i> Claridad</i>, July 6, 2012, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=5DA005AC003E3A8229F8A456BEB47452">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=5DA005AC003E3A8229F8A456BEB47452</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">89.See, e.g., “García Padilla se une petición de
excarcelación
de Oscar López Rivera: Figuras públicas se encierran en celdas en
protesta, <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, May 29, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/garciapadillaseunepeticiondeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521025.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/garciapadillaseunepeticiondeexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1521025.html</a>
(the
governor of Puerto Rico); Cándida Cotto, “Crece apoyo a reclamo de
libertad para Oscar López Rivera,” <i>Claridad</i>, December 11, 2012,
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=78DCECF6C444C7EA431B541D71FFB492">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=78DCECF6C444C7EA431B541D71FFB492</a>
(president
of Puerto Rico Senate, many mayors, and president of Mayor’s
Association).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">90.</span>See,
e.g., “Médicos cirujanos piden libertad de Oscar López,” <i>NotiCel</i>,
July
3,
2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4DFBB4C19379692964AB3D3BD8D94526">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4DFBB4C19379692964AB3D3BD8D94526</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">91.See, e.g., Cándida Cotto, “FEDECOOP apoya
excarcelación
Oscar,” <i>Claridad</i>, May 14, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=670F0905B2C9E1921EACC95D63E74170">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=670F0905B2C9E1921EACC95D63E74170</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">92.“Procurador del veterano pide liberación de
Oscar López:El
licenciado Agustín Montañez Allman le envió una carta al presidente
Obama en la
que le pide considere el servicio militar y los logros de López Rivera
en la
milicia,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, June 4, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/procuradordelveteranopideliberaciondeoscarlopez-1525012.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/procuradordelveteranopideliberaciondeoscarlopez-1525012.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">93.</span>Patricia
Vargas Casiano, "’Quiero volar’: La reina ya se ve desplazándose por el
escenario y alcanzando la segunda corona de Miss Mundo para Puerto
Rico, <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, June 2, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/quierovolar-1523099.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/quierovolar-1523099.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">94.</span>“Tito
Kayak celebró su cumpleaños remando: El activista cumplió 54 años en
las aguas
caribeñas,” <i>El Nuevo Día</i>, July 24, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/titokayakcelebrosucumpleanosremando-1307841.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/titokayakcelebrosucumpleanosremando-1307841.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">95.“Líderes internacionales y puertorriqueños se
reúnen en
San Juan en Encuentro de Derechos Humanos,” <i>Claridad</i>, December
5, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4213BB58B400D6C533CA50BEB9D5C9DB">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4213BB58B400D6C533CA50BEB9D5C9DB</a>;<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Rebecca Banuchi, “Políticos se unen
para pedir
excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera: El boricua ha estado preso durante
31 años,”
<i>El Nuevo Día</i>, December 9, 2012,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/politicosseunenparapedirexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1404111.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/politicosseunenparapedirexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1404111.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">96.InterNews Service, “Del 21 al 24 febrero
Festival de
Apoyo a Claridad dedicado a Oscar López Rivera,” <i>Claridad,</i>
February 20,
2013
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=AE438A98DD8FDFF90EF70A9501215F77">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=AE438A98DD8FDFF90EF70A9501215F77</a>;
Patricia
Rivera
Polanco, “Festival de CLARIDAD: Por la excacerlación de Oscar,”
<i>Claridad</i>, February 25, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=B4F1B9EAD6C96180EDA408BAA6B56566">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=B4F1B9EAD6C96180EDA408BAA6B56566</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">97.See, e.g., InterNews Service, “Oscar López:
‘Antesala a
la libertad’: Reabre la sala San Juan Bautista con exposición de Óscar
López ‘Antesala
a la libertad,’” <i>WAPA Television</i>, May 27, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/entretenimiento/oscar-lopez---antesala-a-la-libertad-_20130527154718.html">http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/entretenimiento/oscar-lopez---antesala-a-la-libertad-_20130527154718.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">98.</span>See,
e.g., “Un mural por Oscar,”, April 21, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.otropuertoricoesposible.org/2013/04/un-mural-por-oscar.html">http://www.otropuertoricoesposible.org/2013/04/un-mural-por-oscar.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">99.</span>“Carmen
Yulín le dedica su triunfo a Oscar López,” <i>Claridad</i>, November
14, 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=D528EAC0C7F025719D68A15D4293AB2C">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=D528EAC0C7F025719D68A15D4293AB2C</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">100.José A. Delgado, “García Padilla sobre Oscar
López,” <i>El
Nuevo Día</i>, June 12, 2013,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-garcia_padilla_sobre_oscar_lopez-1529826.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-garcia_padilla_sobre_oscar_lopez-1529826.html</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">101.“Sánchez Betances confía que cambie la
situación del
preso Oscar López: El secretario de Justicia de Estados Unidos, Eric
Holder,
dice que no es irrazonable la excarcelación Oscar López, <i>METRO.PR,</i>
June
13, 2013, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.metro.pr/locales/sanchez-betances-confia-que-cambie-la-situacion-del-preso-oscar-lopez/pGXmfm%21aaORunstFOUtU/">http://www.metro.pr/locales/sanchez-betances-confia-que-cambie-la-situacion-del-preso-oscar-lopez/pGXmfm!aaORunstFOUtU/</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">102.“Senado en PR por liberación de López,” <i>El
Diario/La
Prensa</i>, June 1, 2013,<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez">http://www.eldiariony.com/noticiasnuestros-paises/article/20130601/Senado-en-PR-por-liberacion-de-Lopez</a>.<span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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