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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1<![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><span
style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span>National Lawyers Guild International
Committee <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Presentation
to the United Nations Decolonization Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Hearings
on Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>June 23,
2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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 was held in
Puerto Rico, where our members learned first hand about the
colonial situation
and committed to educating the membership regarding the colonial
situation of
Puerto Rico and the political prisoners who remain in U.S.
prisons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I. Colonial status<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>The
unresolved status of Puerto Rico continues to generate
controversy. Reports
from the White House Office of Management and Budget,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
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the U.S. General Accounting Office,<a
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title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">speculation about yet another non-binding
“plebiscite,”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn3" href="#_edn3"
name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
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disputes about whether Puerto Rico can join international
organizations such as
CELAC,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn4" href="#_edn4"
name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
all lead to what one perceptive journalist aptly called
“uncertainty”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn5" href="#_edn5"
name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
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and ongoing turmoil. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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 three decades. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">II. Economy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>The
current conditions in Puerto Rico demonstrate that colonialism
is not
economically viable. A $70 billion public debt,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn6" href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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a debt lowered to junk status,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn7"
href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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a constitution that requires payment of the debt before payment
of government
workers,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn8" href="#_edn8"
name="_ednref8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
a long-lasting recession, rising unemployment – above 15% – and
falling wages,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn9" href="#_edn9"
name="_ednref9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
an ever-increasing cost of living (especially utilities),<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
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class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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and 51% of the population on some form of assistance,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
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characterize the situation. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>As a
consequence of its colonial relationship with the U.S., Puerto
Rico cannot go
bankrupt,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn12" href="#_edn12"
name="_ednref12" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and the White House refused to offer a bail out.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn13" href="#_edn13" name="_ednref13"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Washington did, however, dispatch a flurry of advisors to the
Island to “offer
strategic advice to assist Puerto Rico in promoting its economic
development
and maximizing the impact of existing federal funds flowing to
the island,” all
the while insisting it was “not a federal intervention.”<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
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class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>In
addition to looking to Washington, the colonial administration
is hoping to
lure foreign investment, hosting a summit to highlight the
benefits of
investing in Puerto Rico, “including a law that allows new
residents to avoid
taxes on capital gains, the main revenue source for many
high-end investors.”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn15"
href="#_edn15" name="_ednref15" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Prime property is being swept up by billionaire hedge-fund
managers and other
wealthy foreign investors.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn16"
href="#_edn16" name="_ednref16" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Meanwhile,
the colonial administration – the island’s largest employer –
imposed an
austerity program perceived by many as an attempt to foist on to
working people
the responsibility for balancing the budget. The program
includes “pension
reform” for public sector workers, resulting in teacher strikes
and litigation.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn17" href="#_edn17"
name="_ednref17" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The recently passed Fiscal Sustainability Act will allow the
government to exercise
“emergency powers,” including renegotiating public employees'
contracts,
freezing salaries, privatizing the utility companies, and
closing 100 public
schools.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn18" href="#_edn18"
name="_ednref18" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Public employee unions have authorized a general strike.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
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class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>This
economic instability has motivated an unprecedented exodus,
causing a drastic
reduction in the population of the island.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn20" href="#_edn20" name="_ednref20"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
More Puerto Ricans live in the United States than in the Island,
mainly as a
result of the failing economy.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn21"
href="#_edn21" name="_ednref21" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The departure of many in the professional sector has led to the
use of the term
“brain drain.”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn22" href="#_edn22"
name="_ednref22" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span
style="mso-tab-count:3"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>These
details hardly interest mainstream United States. Rather, what
consumes the
attention of the media, and U.S. commercial interests, is their
investments.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn23" href="#_edn23"
name="_ednref23" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Said one commentator, “In short, it won’t be easy. But it might
be interesting,
at least for those of us who are on the outside looking in. For
the residents
of Puerto Rico, though, it will probably just be painful.”<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
edn24" href="#_edn24" name="_ednref24" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">III. Federal intervention<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>U.S.
intervention into the daily lives of the Puerto Rican people
continues to be a
constant. The pattern doesn’t seem to change: Federal Bureau of
Investigation
[FBI] and Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] raids for fraud,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn25" href="#_edn25" name="_ednref25"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
corruption<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn26" href="#_edn26"
name="_ednref26" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and drugs,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn27" href="#_edn27"
name="_ednref27" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and Washington funding projects,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn28"
href="#_edn28" name="_ednref28" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
all to insinuate that Puerto Rico cannot properly manage its own
affairs.
Indeed, the new director of the FBI field office in San Juan as
much as said
so.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn29" href="#_edn29"
name="_ednref29" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Although
the U.S. has historically directed and trained the Puerto Rico
Police [PRP] –
former FBI agents administered the PRP 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, after
having issued a
report finding, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">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.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn30" href="#_edn30"
name="_ednref30" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[30]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Implementation of reforms – among the most extensive ever
achieved by U.S. DOJ
– <a style="mso-endnote-id:edn31" href="#_edn31"
name="_ednref31" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
has stagnated as a series of monitors and police chiefs have
withdrawn or
resigned from the difficult and expensive task.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn32" href="#_edn32" name="_ednref32"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">IV. Death penalty<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Although
the Puerto Rican constitution prohibits the death penalty in
Puerto Rico,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn33" href="#_edn33"
name="_ednref33" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
consistent with its long term ban prior to the constitution, and
no one has
been executed in Puerto Rico since 1927,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn34" href="#_edn34" name="_ednref34"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[34]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
it is one of the jurisdictions with the highest number of cases
certified by
the U.S. Department of Justice for the death penalty.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
edn35" href="#_edn35" name="_ednref35" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[35]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:
edn36" href="#_edn36" name="_ednref36" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[36]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
while civic and religious groups consistently maintained vigils
outside the
courthouse.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn37" href="#_edn37"
name="_ednref37" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[37]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>It is
good to know that “the whole world is watching:” the 12th
General Assembly of
the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty just took place in
San Juan, at
the invitation of the Puerto Rico Bar Association, featuring a
Puerto Rican
death row exoneree and many skilled Puerto Rican attorneys and
activists.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn38" href="#_edn38"
name="_ednref38" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[38]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">V. Vieques<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Eleven
years after 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. continues to
fail to clean up
the toxic and lethal substances its military left behind at this
Superfund
site. Recently adopted legislation (promoted by Puerto Rican
members of
Congress representing New York districts) requires the Pentagon
to disclose the
process of decontamination and reveal what weapons they used.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn39" href="#_edn39" name="_ednref39"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[39]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>The
people of Vieques filed a petition before the Inter-American
Commission on
Human Rights (IACHR) against the United States for human rights
violations,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn40" href="#_edn40"
name="_ednref40" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[40]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and continue to demand in every possible forum: 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;<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn41" href="#_edn41" name="_ednref41"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[41]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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);<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn42" href="#_edn42"
name="_ednref42" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[42]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
3) sustainable development; 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).<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn43" href="#_edn43"
name="_ednref43" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[43]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">VI. Political prisoners<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">At
71 years of age
and having served 33 years in remote prisons, far away from
his country,
accused of seditious conspiracy, but never having been found
guilty of shedding
any blood, Oscar López Rivera is the symbol of a flagrant
dishonor for his
jailers and an affront to democracy that fails to respect
human rights. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Thus
began an editorial in Puerto Rico’s main daily newspaper on the
33<sup>rd</sup>
anniversary of his arrest on May 29 of this year.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn44" href="#_edn44" name="_ednref44"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[44]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Oscar López Rivera has served an unprecedented 33 years in U.S.
prisons for his
commitment to the independence and self-determination of Puerto
Rico, achieving
the unenviable distinction of being the longest held political
prisoner in the
history of Puerto Rico’s independence movement. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>At the
same time, he has become a unifying force for the people of
Puerto Rico, from
elected officials to religious leaders to college students, who
all agree that
it is time for him to come home – a consensus that only
continues to broaden
and deepen. His name and his face are omnipresent, on murals
throughout the
Island, on banners on stage at recent university graduations,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn45" href="#_edn45" name="_ednref45"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[45]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
on teeshirts, buttons and bracelets.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn46" href="#_edn46" name="_ednref46"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[46]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>In
November of 2013, thousands marched through the streets of San
Juan, calling on
the U.S. president to release him.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn47" href="#_edn47" name="_ednref47"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[47]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Actors, musicians and giant puppets enacted Obama signing
Oscar’s commutation,
and Oscar reuniting with his daughter.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn48" href="#_edn48" name="_ednref48"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[48]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The main daily newspaper’s editorial which coincided with the
march, urged his
release:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It is a decision the president should take
already,
because every minute of prolonging that unjust imprisonment is
an act by the
United States government that constitutes an affront to decorum
and a contempt
for dignity. This cause transcends social, political, religious,
community, and
even international barriers.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn49"
href="#_edn49" name="_ednref49" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[49]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>In the
spirit of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, a group of 33 women
mobilize the last
Sunday of every month “hasta su regreso,” until his release, for
33 minutes,
organizing women in every sector of society to join them: one
month it was 33
women teachers;<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn50" href="#_edn50"
name="_ednref50" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[50]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
another month, 33 women artists,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn51"
href="#_edn51" name="_ednref51" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[51]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
yet another month, 33 religious women; at Christmas time, even
little girls
joined the fray.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn52" href="#_edn52"
name="_ednref52" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[52]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The enthusiastic example of women in Puerto Rico inspired
creation of a similar
group in New York City.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn53"
href="#_edn53" name="_ednref53" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[53]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Oscar’s
letters to his granddaughter, published regularly in the main
daily newspaper,
have generated much support and have served as the source of
creativity. In one
letter, he spoke of how he missed the ocean, which he hadn’t
seen in over 35
years,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn54" href="#_edn54"
name="_ednref54" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[54]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
which inspired for the 33<sup>rd</sup> anniversary of his
imprisonment, a
dramatic symbolic homecoming via the ocean: a giant puppet head
of Oscar,
escorted by a fleet of sailboats and kayaks, disembarked in Old
San Juan and
proceeded to a concert facing the see, “Al Mar X Oscar (To the
Sea for Oscar).”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn55" href="#_edn55"
name="_ednref55" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[55]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>In
another anniversary project organized and supported by the
country’s finest athletes
and a human rights organization, a core group walked 333 miles
between 33 towns
in 33 days.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn56" href="#_edn56"
name="_ednref56" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[56]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Often escorted by the town mayors,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn57" href="#_edn57" name="_ednref57"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[57]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
always housed, fed and entertained by townspeople of all
political persuasions,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn58"
href="#_edn58" name="_ednref58" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[58]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
they walked the last few miles into San Juan accompanied by
hundreds of people
calling for Oscar’s release.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn59"
href="#_edn59" name="_ednref59" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[59]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Also on
the 33<sup>rd</sup> anniversary, the Senate of Puerto Rico
passed yet another
resolution calling on Obama to release him, declaring, “His
prolonged
imprisonment, far from serving any legitimate purpose, has
become a signal of
inhumanity and injustice.”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn60"
href="#_edn60" name="_ednref60" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
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The main daily newspaper published yet another editorial – this
one calling his
ongoing imprisonment “a betrayal of democracy.”<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn61" href="#_edn61" name="_ednref61"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[61]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Building
on this solid consensus on the Island, support in the United
States continues
to grow. U.S. based unions, including the AFL-CIO – representing
more than 11.5
million workers – ,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn62"
href="#_edn62" name="_ednref62" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[62]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>passed resolutions calling
for his release,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn63" href="#_edn63"
name="_ednref63" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[63]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and churches similarly expressed support.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn64" href="#_edn64" name="_ednref64"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[64]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
In November, hundreds marched in New York City,<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn65" href="#_edn65" name="_ednref65"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[65]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and just this month, the New York City Puerto Rican Day Parade
honored Oscar
with a special contingent featuring “a succession of banners”
calling for his
release.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn66" href="#_edn66"
name="_ednref66" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[66]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
A parade board member articulated, “we are proud to raise
consciousness about
his case and mobilize our community to support the movement for
his freedom.”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn67" href="#_edn67"
name="_ednref67" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[67]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
In the U.S. on the occasion of the 33<sup>rd</sup> anniversary
of his
imprisonment, demonstrations, rallies, bannering and/or pickets
took place in
many cities, including Chicago, New York City, Detroit,
Philadelphia,
Cleveland, Orlando, and Fitchburg, MA.<a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn68" href="#_edn68" name="_ednref68"
title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[68]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>The
solid foundation in Puerto Rico has also inspired much
international
solidarity. In a recent meeting with Obama, Uruguay’s president
José Mujica
advocated for Oscar’s release.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn69"
href="#_edn69" name="_ednref69" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[69]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
As Venezuelan consulates in Antigua, Barbuda, Argentina,
Barbados, Colombia and
Paraguay called for Oscar’s release, Venezuelan president
Nicolas Maduro
recognized Oscar as “a Caribbean Mandela, he is our Nelson
Mandela,” and called
on Obama to release him, “because his only crime is to dream of
his land being
free and independent.”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn70"
href="#_edn70" name="_ednref70" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[70]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
In Cuba, the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of
Africa, Asia and
Latin America awarded him the Order of Solidarity El Mehdi ben
Barka,<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn71" href="#_edn71"
name="_ednref71" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[71]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
which evoked from Ricardo Alarcón the observation that Oscar is
“Obama’s
Mandela.”<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn72" href="#_edn72"
name="_ednref72" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:
footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[72]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>This
year many internationalist individuals and organizations added
their voices to
those of Gabriel García Márquez, Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire,
Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel, and Miguel D'Escoto, calling for Oscar’s release,
including the Non
Aligned Movement (at the 16th Summit of Heads of State and
Government), the
American Association of Jurists, the International Association
of Democratic
Lawyers, the Congress of the Federation of Workers of the
Universities of the
Americas, and the Conference of Afro-Indigenous, Latin American
and Caribbean
Churches for Peace.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Before
concluding, I will pause for 33 seconds, in honor of the 33
years – a third of
a century – Oscar has spent in the service of his people’s
inalienable right to
self-determination and independence. [PAUSE]. May our work for
his release be
successful, so that next year we won’t have to pause for 34
seconds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>“The
calendar,” Oscar has confided in me, “is not my friend.” This
January, on the
occasion of his 71<sup>st</sup> birthday, he wrote to his
daughter Clarisa:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I believe in my people and bet on them.
They have a huge
heart, are compassionate, valiant and really love justice and
freedom. And it
is that heart that has sustained us and that has made it
possible for us to
keep up the struggle. We will continue struggling for justice
and freedom until
the day we make of our Homeland a garden of Eden for our own
enjoyment and for
all of humanity. I live profoundly grateful to everyone who has
come together
to demand that the President of the nation that has colonized us
for more than
115 years practice justice and liberty by releasing me. He’s not
being asked
for a favor; but rather, it is the people exercising an
inalienable right to
demand justice and freedom.<a style="mso-endnote-id:edn73"
href="#_edn73" name="_ednref73" title=""><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[73]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>Consonant
with the demand of the People, 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 unprecedented 33 years in U.S. prisons for having
fought for his
unwavering commitment to independence and self-determination.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">VII. Conclusion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>*
immediately release Puerto Rican political prisoners Oscar López
Rivera, who
has served more than 33 years in U.S. custody, and Norberto
González Claudio;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>* cease
and desist from the application of the death penalty in Puerto
Rico;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</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></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dated: June 23, 2014<span
style="mso-tab-count:4">
</span>Respectfully
submitted,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span>Jan
Susler<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span>People’s
Law Office<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span>1180
N. Milwaukee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span>Chicago,
IL 60642<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span>773/235-0070<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span><a href="mailto:jsusler@aol.com"><span style="color:blue">jsusler@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span>On
behalf of the National Lawyers Guild<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:6">
</span>International
Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-tab-count:2">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count:4">
</span><a href="http://www.nlginternational.org/"><span
style="color:blue">http://www.nlginternational.org/</span></a>
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote-list"><!--[if !supportEndnotes]--><br
clear="all">
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%">
<!--[endif]-->
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn1">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn1" href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[1]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>CB
Online
Staff, “White House OMB report shows status costing PR
billions in federal
funding,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business,</i> March
14, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/white-house-omb-report-shows-status-costing-pr-billions-in-federal-funding-94725.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/white-house-omb-report-shows-status-costing-pr-billions-in-federal-funding-94725.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn2">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn2" href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[2]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Puerto
Rico:
Information on How Statehood Would Potentially Affect Selected
Federal
Programs and Revenue Sources, GAO-14-31: Published: Mar 4,
2014. Publicly
Released: Mar 31, 2014, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-31">http://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-31</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn3">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn3" href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[3]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Puerto
Rico
Plebiscite Is A Waste Of Money, Rightwing Think Tank Says,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> Huffington Post</i>,
January 21, 2014,
Updated January 25, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/puerto-rico-plebiscite-heritage_n_4639314.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/puerto-rico-plebiscite-heritage_n_4639314.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn4">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn4" href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[4]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Kevin
Mead,
“US has final say on PR’s role in international
organizations,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
Caribbean Business</i>, January 31, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/state-department-us-has-final-say-on-prs-role-in-international-organizations-93194.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/state-department-us-has-final-say-on-prs-role-in-international-organizations-93194.html</a>
(“a
State Department spokesperson said that because Puerto Rico is
a U.S.
territory, the federal government is responsible for the
foreign relations of
Puerto Rico, including decisions related to its membership or
other
participation in international organizations.”). <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn5">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn5" href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[5]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>José
A.
Delgado, “Incertidumbre,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo Día</i>,
April 7, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-incertidumbre-1747715.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-incertidumbre-1747715.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn6">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn6" href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[6]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>David
Cho,
“Puerto Rico may have $70 billion in debt. But it didn’t have
a problem getting
a loan,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Washington
Post</i>, March 12,
2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/12/puerto-rico-may-have-70-billion-in-debt-but-it-didnt-have-a-problem-getting-a-loan/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/12/puerto-rico-may-have-70-billion-in-debt-but-it-didnt-have-a-problem-getting-a-loan/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn7">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn7" href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[7]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“S.&P.
Lowers
Puerto Rico Debt to Junk Status,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">New
York Times</i>, February 4, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/s-p-lowers-puerto-rico-debt-to-junk-status/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_tnt_20140204&tntemail0=y&_r=0">http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/s-p-lowers-puerto-rico-debt-to-junk-status/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_tnt_20140204&tntemail0=y&_r=0</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn8">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn8" href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[8]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Yana
Kunichoff,
“Puerto Rico Unions Threaten Strike Against Austerity Budget,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> In These Times</i>, June
9, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://inthesetimes.org/working/entry/16814/puerto_rico_unions_threaten_strike_against_austerity_budget">http://inthesetimes.org/working/entry/16814/puerto_rico_unions_threaten_strike_against_austerity_budget</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn9">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn9" href="#_ednref9" name="_edn9"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[9]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Kevin
Mead,
“BLS: Employment, wages drop in PR,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, May 12, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/bls-employment-wages-drop-in-pr-96784.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/bls-employment-wages-drop-in-pr-96784.html</a>;
Cindy
Y. Rodriguez, “Why more Puerto Ricans are living in mainland
U.S. than in
Puerto Rico,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">CNN</i>,
March 24, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/22/us/puerto-rico-migration-economy/">http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/22/us/puerto-rico-migration-economy/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn10">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn10" href="#_ednref10" name="_edn10"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[10]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Cindy
Y.
Rodriguez, “Why more Puerto Ricans are living in mainland U.S.
than in Puerto
Rico,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">CNN</i>, March
24, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/22/us/puerto-rico-migration-economy/">http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/22/us/puerto-rico-migration-economy/</a>;
Lizette
Alvarez, “Economy and Crime Spur New Puerto Rican Exodus,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">New York Times</i>, February 8, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/economy-and-crime-spur-new-puerto-rican-exodus.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/economy-and-crime-spur-new-puerto-rican-exodus.html?_r=0</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn11">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn11" href="#_ednref11" name="_edn11"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[11]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Ellie
Ismailidou
and Francesca Trianni, “The Next Financial Catastrophe You
Haven’t
Heard About Yet: Puerto Rico,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Time
Magazine</i>, March 12, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://time.com/20416/the-next-financial-catastrophe-you-havent-heard-about-yet-puerto-rico/">http://time.com/20416/the-next-financial-catastrophe-you-havent-heard-about-yet-puerto-rico/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn12">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn12" href="#_ednref12" name="_edn12"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[12]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Stephen
J.
Lubben, “Answer to Puerto Rico’s Debt Woes? It’s Complicated,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> New York Times</i>,
February 6, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/answer-to-puerto-ricos-debt-woes-its-complicated/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_tnt_20140206&tntemail0=y&_r=0">http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/answer-to-puerto-ricos-debt-woes-its-complicated/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_tnt_20140206&tntemail0=y&_r=0</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn13">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn13" href="#_ednref13" name="_edn13"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[13]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Mark
Felsenthal,
“White House not considering Puerto Rico bailout, official
says,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> Reuters,</i>
January 22, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/22/usa-puertorico-finances-idUSL2N0KW1U620140122">http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/22/usa-puertorico-finances-idUSL2N0KW1U620140122</a>;
Kevin
Mead, “White House again says no PR bailout,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, February 5, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/white-house-again-says-no-pr-bailout-93423.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/white-house-again-says-no-pr-bailout-93423.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn14">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn14" href="#_ednref14" name="_edn14"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[14]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>CB
Online
Staff, “US-PR advisory meetings underway,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, December 3, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/us-pr-advisory-meetings-underway-91553.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/us-pr-advisory-meetings-underway-91553.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn15">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn15" href="#_ednref15" name="_edn15"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[15]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Danica
Coto,
AP, “Puerto Rico Seeks To Lure Wealthy Investors To Help
Economic
Crisis,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Huffington
Post</i>, April 25,
2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/puerto-rico-lure-investors_n_5212238.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/puerto-rico-lure-investors_n_5212238.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn16">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn16" href="#_ednref16" name="_edn16"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[16]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Katherine
Burton,
“John Paulson Calls Puerto Rico Singapore of Caribbean,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Bloomberg News</i>, April
24, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-24/john-paulson-says-puerto-rico-to-become-singapore-of-caribbean.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-24/john-paulson-says-puerto-rico-to-become-singapore-of-caribbean.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn17">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn17" href="#_ednref17" name="_edn17"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[17]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>CB
Online
Staff, “Teachers strike over pension reform,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, January 14, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/teachers-strike-over-pension-reform-92621.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/teachers-strike-over-pension-reform-92621.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn18">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn18" href="#_ednref18" name="_edn18"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[18]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Yana
Kunichoff,
“Puerto Rico Unions Threaten Strike Against Austerity Budget,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> In These Times</i>, June
9, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://inthesetimes.org/working/entry/16814/puerto_rico_unions_threaten_strike_against_austerity_budget">http://inthesetimes.org/working/entry/16814/puerto_rico_unions_threaten_strike_against_austerity_budget</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn19">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn19" href="#_ednref19" name="_edn19"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[19]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Puerto
Rican
Unions Threaten General Strike,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Latin
American Herald Tribune</i>, June 4, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2329072&CategoryId=14092">http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2329072&CategoryId=14092</a>;
Ricardo
Cortés Chico, “¿Por qué protestan las uniones? Dos sindicatos
aprobaron hoy
voto de huelga,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> El
Nuevo Día</i>, June
17, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/porqueprotestanlasuniones-1795332.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/porqueprotestanlasuniones-1795332.html</a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn20">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn20" href="#_ednref20" name="_edn20"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[20]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>José
A.
Delgado, “Se vacía la Isla: Cerca de 3,000 personas abandonan
el País cada mes
y los nacimientos han bajado en 2,000 por año, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">El Nuevo Día</i>, January 27, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/sevacialaisla-1698148.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/sevacialaisla-1698148.html</a>; CB
Online Staff, “PR’s
plunging population in spotlight,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, January 7, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/prs-plunging-population-in-spotlight-92420.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/prs-plunging-population-in-spotlight-92420.html</a>;
CB
Online Staff, “Enrollment dropping at PR public schools,
universities,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, May 9, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/enrollment-dropping-at-pr-public-schools-universities-96728.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/enrollment-dropping-at-pr-public-schools-universities-96728.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn21">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn21" href="#_ednref21" name="_edn21"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[21]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Cindy
Y.
Rodriguez, “Why more Puerto Ricans are living in mainland U.S.
than in Puerto
Rico,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">CNN</i>, March
24, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/22/us/puerto-rico-migration-economy/">http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/22/us/puerto-rico-migration-economy/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn22">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn22" href="#_ednref22" name="_edn22"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[22]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>CB
Online
Staff, “Data: PR ‘brain drain’ rate picked up,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, February 3, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/data-pr-brain-drain-rate-picked-up-93282.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/data-pr-brain-drain-rate-picked-up-93282.html</a>;
Ely
Acevedo Denis, “Cambia el emigrante puertorriqueño es más
educado y con más
ingresos,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Noticel</i>,
February 1, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/155091/cambia-el-emigrante-puertorriqueno-es-mas-educado-y-con-mas-ingresos-documento.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/155091/cambia-el-emigrante-puertorriqueno-es-mas-educado-y-con-mas-ingresos-documento.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn23">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn23" href="#_ednref23" name="_edn23"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[23]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>CB
Online
Staff, “Moody’s analysis: PR’s credit risk widens as ‘economic
turmoil
deepens’,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, April
23, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/moodys-analysis-prs-credit-risk-widens-as-economic-turmoil-deepens-96056.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/moodys-analysis-prs-credit-risk-widens-as-economic-turmoil-deepens-96056.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn24">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn24" href="#_ednref24" name="_edn24"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[24]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Stephen
J.
Lubben, “Answer to Puerto Rico’s Debt Woes? It’s Complicated,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> New York Times</i>,
February 6, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/answer-to-puerto-ricos-debt-woes-itscomplicated/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_tnt_20140206&tntemail0=y&_r=0">http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/answer-to-puerto-ricos-debt-woes-itscomplicated/?_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_tnt_20140206&tntemail0=y&_r=0</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn25">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn25" href="#_ednref25" name="_edn25"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[25]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
CB Online Staff, “Feds probe ticket fraud scheme at DTOP,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> Caribbean Business</i>, January 16, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-probe-ticket-fraud-scheme-at-dtop-92718.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-probe-ticket-fraud-scheme-at-dtop-92718.html</a>;
CB
Online Staff, “Feds continue to target PR health fraud,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean Business</i>, <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>May 9, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-continue-to-target-pr-health-fraud-96714.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-continue-to-target-pr-health-fraud-96714.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn26">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn26" href="#_ednref26" name="_edn26"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[26]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
Kevin Mead, “Feds: Mafia of dirty PR cops ‘sold’ badges for
organized crime
spree,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, May 22,
2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-mafia-of-dirty-pr-cops-sold-badges-for-organized-crime-spree-97171.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-mafia-of-dirty-pr-cops-sold-badges-for-organized-crime-spree-97171.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn27">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn27" href="#_ednref27" name="_edn27"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[27]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
Alex Figueroa Cancel, “DEA realiza operativo por narcotráfico:
Ejecutan varias
órdenes de arresto en la zona metropolitana,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> El Nuevo Día</i>, May 15, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/dearealizaoperativopornarcotrafico-1773528.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/dearealizaoperativopornarcotrafico-1773528.html</a>;
Danica
Coto, AP, “Feds to target drug kingpins in PR,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, September 27, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-to-target-drug-kingpins-in-pr-89328.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/feds-to-target-drug-kingpins-in-pr-89328.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn28">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn28" href="#_ednref28" name="_edn28"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[28]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
CB Online Staff, “$2.5M in fed funds for training in PR,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, September 18, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$2.5m-in-fed-funds-for-training-in-pr-89025.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/$2.5m-in-fed-funds-for-training-in-pr-89025.html</a>;
CB
Online Staff, “EPA $3M to clean Superfund site, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, November 6, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/epa-$3m-to-clean-superfund-site-90726.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/epa-$3m-to-clean-superfund-site-90726.html</a>;
Kevin
Mead, “PR gets $104M for public housing work,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, March 20, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-gets-$104m-for-public-housing-work-94985.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/pr-gets-$104m-for-public-housing-work-94985.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn29">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn29" href="#_ednref29" name="_edn29"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[29]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Secretario
de
Justicia deplora expresiones hechas por el jefe del FBI en
Puerto Rico:
César Miranda rechazó las críticas hechas por Carlos Cases al
sistema de ley
estatal y a la manera en que a veces se procesan casos de
criminales,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo
Día</i>, March 13, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/secretariodejusticiadeploraexpresioneshechasporeljefedelfbienpuertorico-1731306.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/secretariodejusticiadeploraexpresioneshechasporeljefedelfbienpuertorico-1731306.html</a>;
Alex
Figueroa Cancel, “Dura crítica federal a acciones estatales
que culminan en
libertad delincuentes violentos: Carlos Cases, jefe del FBI en
la Isla, recordó
casos de asesinos convictos que cumplieron apenas meses por
los homicidios que
cometieron,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo
Día</i>, March 13,
2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/duracriticafederalaaccionesestatalesqueculminanenlibertaddelincuentesviolentos-1731265.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/duracriticafederalaaccionesestatalesqueculminanenlibertaddelincuentesviolentos-1731265.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn30">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn30" href="#_ednref30" name="_edn30"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[30]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>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 style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Aljazeera</i>,
June 26, 2012,
<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>;
American
Civil Liberties Union, “Island of Impunity: Puerto Rico’s
Outlaw
Police Force,” June 2012,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/islandofimpunity_20120619.pdf">https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/islandofimpunity_20120619.pdf</a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn31">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn31" href="#_ednref31" name="_edn31"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[31]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>John
Marino,
“Holder, García Padilla announce accord to reform Police
Department,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, July 17, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/holder-garcia-padilla-announce-accord-to-reform-police-department-86752.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/holder-garcia-padilla-announce-accord-to-reform-police-department-86752.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn32">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn32" href="#_ednref32" name="_edn32"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[32]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“District
Court
Approves Selection of Arnaldo Claudio as Technical Compliance
Advisor to
Oversee Critical Reforms of Puerto Rico Police,” U.S.
Department of Justice,
June 5, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-crt-604.html">http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-crt-604.html</a>; Kevin
Mead, “Top cop: PR Police Department reform will cost $200M
over the next
decade,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Caribbean
Business</i>, May 9,
2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/top-cop-pr-police-department-reform-will-cost-$200m-over-the-next-decade-96692.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/top-cop-pr-police-department-reform-will-cost-$200m-over-the-next-decade-96692.html</a>;
CB
Online Staff, “Still no monitor for PR police reform,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Caribbean Business</i>, May 15, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/still-no-monitor-for-pr-police-reform-96940.html">http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news/still-no-monitor-for-pr-police-reform-96940.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn33">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn33" href="#_ednref33" name="_edn33"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[33]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>The
constitution
came about as part of U.S. Public Law 600, which specified
that it
would only come into effect after certification by U.S.
Congress. See, César J.
Ayala and Rafael Bernabe, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Puerto Rico in
the American Century: A History Since 1898 </i>(University
of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Hill, 2007), pp. 163-165.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn34">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn34" href="#_ednref34" name="_edn34"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[34]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></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 style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">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>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn35">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn35" href="#_ednref35" name="_edn35"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[35]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Editorial,
“A
pasar la página de la pena capital,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El
Nuevo Día</i>, April 28, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-apasarlapaginadelapenacapital-1499552.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn36">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn36" href="#_ednref36" name="_edn36"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[36]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Caribbean
Business
Online Staff, “PR cop killer dodges death penalty,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> 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:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"> </span>The
U.S. courts
operate in the English language, thus excluding the vast
majority of Puerto
Ricans from eligibility for jury duty. <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn37">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn37" href="#_ednref37" name="_edn37"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[37]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
“Concilio de Iglesias reanuda vigilias contra pena de muerte,”
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">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>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn38">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn38" href="#_ednref38" name="_edn38"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[38]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Inès
Oulmokhtar,
“AGM focuses on mental health and progress in the Caribbean,”
World
Coalition Against the Death Penalty, May 16, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.worldcoalition.org/agm-abolitionist-death-penalty-caribbean-mental-illness-puerto-rico.html">http://www.worldcoalition.org/agm-abolitionist-death-penalty-caribbean-mental-illness-puerto-rico.html</a>;
EFE,
“Puerto Rico acogerá reunión anual de Coalición Mundial contra
Pena de
Muerte,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Univisión</i>,
June 10, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://puertorico.univision.com/ultima-hora/puerto-rico/article/2014-06-10/puerto-rico-acogera-reunion-anual">http://puertorico.univision.com/ultima-hora/puerto-rico/article/2014-06-10/puerto-rico-acogera-reunion-anual</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn39">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn39" href="#_ednref39" name="_edn39"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[39]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>José
A.
Delgado, “Aprueba la Cámara baja federal pedir cuentas sobre
Vieques y Culebra:
La medida incluye lenguaje del congresista Serrano que pide
informe sobre
limpieza y armas utilizadas,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo
Día</i>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/apruebalacamarabajafederalpedircuentassobre%C2%A0vieques%C2%A0yculebra-1798137.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/apruebalacamarabajafederalpedircuentassobre%C2%A0vieques%C2%A0yculebra-1798137.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn40">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn40" href="#_ednref40" name="_edn40"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[40]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Joel
Cintrón
Arbasetti, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo de Puerto Rico,
“Estados
Unidos demandado ante la OEA por violar derechos humanos en
Vieques,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Claridad</i>,
October 1, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=948AF4C4FEA469E2E41891B918739812">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=948AF4C4FEA469E2E41891B918739812</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn41">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn41" href="#_ednref41" name="_edn41"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[41]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
EFE USA, “Avanza ley para que Pentágono informe sobre la
limpieza de Vieques y
Culebra,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">EFE</i>, June
10, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/usa/puerto-rico/avanza-ley-para-que-pentagono-informe-sobre-limpieza-vieques-culebra/5/50034/2340771">http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/usa/puerto-rico/avanza-ley-para-que-pentagono-informe-sobre-limpieza-vieques-culebra/5/50034/2340771</a>;
Editorial,
“Reparación de daños en una laguna viequense,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> El Nuevo Día</i>, June 15, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-reparaciondedanosenunalagunaviequense-1793466.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-reparaciondedanosenunalagunaviequense-1793466.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn42">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn42" href="#_ednref42" name="_edn42"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[42]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
Juan C. Dávila, Frutos Fílmicos, “Vieques, una batalla
inconclusa,”
(documentary film),
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFR79w7u5n8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFR79w7u5n8</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn43">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn43" href="#_ednref43" name="_edn43"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[43]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
Radio Vieques, launched June 30, 2013: “Public radio WVQR will
provide
cultural-educational programming related to the struggles that
continue in the
eastern region of Puerto Rico for decontamination, return of
the lands occupied
by the U.S. Navy for more than a half-century, as well as for
the health of the
communities and sustainable development.”
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.radiovieques.net/">http://www.radiovieques.net/</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn44">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn44" href="#_ednref44" name="_edn44"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[44]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Editorial,
“Traiciona
la democracia la prisión de Oscar López,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">El Nuevo Día</i>, June 1, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-traicionalademocracialaprisiondeoscarlopez-1783974.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-traicionalademocracialaprisiondeoscarlopez-1783974.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn45">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn45" href="#_ednref45" name="_edn45"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[45]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>David
Cordero
Mercado, “La IUPI celebra sus actos de graduación,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Diálogo Digital</i>, June
11, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://m.dialogodigital.com/index.php/La-IUPI-celebra-sus-actos-de-graduacion.html#.U6OJqJSJHw0">http://m.dialogodigital.com/index.php/La-IUPI-celebra-sus-actos-de-graduacion.html#.U6OJqJSJHw0</a>;
“Más
de 50 nuevos artistas: Celebran graduación de la Escuela de
Artes
Plásticas mientras estudiantes y profesores pedían la
excarcelación de Oscar
López Rivera,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo
Día</i>, June 20,
2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/masde50nuevosartistas-1797503.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/masde50nuevosartistas-1797503.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn46">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn46" href="#_ednref46" name="_edn46"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[46]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>The
Stream
Team, “Puerto Ricans to demonstrate for release of Oscar
López,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> Al Jazeera
America</i>, November 22, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2013/11/22/puerto-ricans-todemonstrateforreleaseofoscarlopez.html">http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2013/11/22/puerto-ricans-todemonstrateforreleaseofoscarlopez.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn47">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn47" href="#_ednref47" name="_edn47"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[47]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Cándida
Cotto,
“Miles reclaman a Obama: ‘Navidad con Oscar en casa’,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Claridad</i>, November
27, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=05C39B98083303CBE32006C969B30778">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=05C39B98083303CBE32006C969B30778</a>;
Tatiana
Pérez Rivera, “Las caras del recorrido: Cabezudos lideran la
petición
de excarcelación del preso político boricua que lleva 32 años
en EEUU,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo Día</i>,
November 23, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/lascarasdelrecorrido-1650130.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/lascarasdelrecorrido-1650130.html</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn48">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn48" href="#_ednref48" name="_edn48"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[48]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Puerto
Rico:
Total éxito de la marcha por la liberación de Oscar López, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Contra Injerencia</i>,
November 24, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.contrainjerencia.com/?p=78090">http://www.contrainjerencia.com/?p=78090</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn49">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn49" href="#_ednref49" name="_edn49"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[49]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Editorial,
“Obama,
Excarcele Ya a Oscar López,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El
Nuevo Día</i>, November 23, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-obamaexcarceleyaaoscarlopez-1650144.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-obamaexcarceleyaaoscarlopez-1650144.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn50">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn50" href="#_ednref50" name="_edn50"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[50]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Maestras
piden
excarcelación de Oscar López,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Univisión</i>,
November 24, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://puertorico.univision.com/ultima-hora/puerto-rico/video/2013-11-24/mestras-piden-excarcelacion-oscar-lopez">http://puertorico.univision.com/ultima-hora/puerto-rico/video/2013-11-24/mestras-piden-excarcelacion-oscar-lopez</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn51">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn51" href="#_ednref51" name="_edn51"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[51]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Mujeres
en
el mundo de las artes por la libertad de Oscar,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Claridad</i>, August 27, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=85974F889D019B3046DE4D08D14DF2C6">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=85974F889D019B3046DE4D08D14DF2C6</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn52">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn52" href="#_ednref52" name="_edn52"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[52]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>En
Rojo,
“32 niñas exigen la excarcelación del prisonero político Oscar
López Rivera,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Claridad</i>,
December 30, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=9FECCAB3B654EC73A8257C91E1ED48C8">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=9FECCAB3B654EC73A8257C91E1ED48C8</a>.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn53">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn53" href="#_ednref53" name="_edn53"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[53]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Andre
Lee
Muñiz, “33 Mujeres NYC x Oscar In The Bronx,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">La Respuesta</i>, May 1, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://larespuestamedia.com/33-mujeres-nyc-x-oscar-in-the-bronx/">http://larespuestamedia.com/33-mujeres-nyc-x-oscar-in-the-bronx/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn54">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn54" href="#_ednref54" name="_edn54"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[54]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Donde
respira
el mar,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo Día</i>,
September 14,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/cartadeoscarlopezdonderespiraelmar-1595817.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/cartadeoscarlopezdonderespiraelmar-1595817.html</a>;
“‘Where
the Sea Breathes’: A Letter from Puerto Rican Political
Prisoner Oscar
López Rivera,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> Global
Voices</i>, posted
December 9, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/12/09/where-the-sea-breathes-a-letter-from-puerto-rican-political-prisoner-oscar-lopez-rivera/">http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/12/09/where-the-sea-breathes-a-letter-from-puerto-rican-political-prisoner-oscar-lopez-rivera/</a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn55">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn55" href="#_ednref55" name="_edn55"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[55]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Juan
R.
Costa Rivera, “Estela de embarcaciones por la liberación de
Oscar López
Rivera,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Noticel</i>,
May 25, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/160900/estela-de-embarcaciones-por-la-liberacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-galeria.html">http://www.noticel.com/noticia/160900/estela-de-embarcaciones-por-la-liberacion-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-galeria.html</a>;
Rebecca
Banuchi, “Exigen libertad para Oscar López Rivera por mar y
tierra,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo Día</i>,
May 25, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/exigenlibertadparaoscarlopezriverapormarytierra-1780157.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/exigenlibertadparaoscarlopezriverapormarytierra-1780157.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn56">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn56" href="#_ednref56" name="_edn56"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[56]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“33
pueblos
en 33 días por la liberación de Oscar López,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> NotiUno</i>, April 22, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://notiuno.com/33-pueblos-en-33-dias-por-la-liberacion-de-oscar-lopez/">http://notiuno.com/33-pueblos-en-33-dias-por-la-liberacion-de-oscar-lopez/</a>;
Elliot
Castro, “Deportistas por la libertad de Oscar,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Claridad</i>, June 18, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=D6928CF5A6C2E17B9DA8A1B8925229C6">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=D6928CF5A6C2E17B9DA8A1B8925229C6</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn57">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn57" href="#_ednref57" name="_edn57"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[57]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
Edgar Torres, “Cayeyanos reclaman la libertad de Oscar López
Rivera,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Inter News
Service</i>, May 5, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mprnoticias.com/2014/05/05/cayeyanos-reclaman-la-libertad-de-oscar-lopez-rivera/">http://mprnoticias.com/2014/05/05/cayeyanos-reclaman-la-libertad-de-oscar-lopez-rivera/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn58">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn58" href="#_ednref58" name="_edn58"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[58]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
e.g.,
Brenda I. Peña López, “Claman desde San Lorenzo por la
liberación de Oscar
López: Un centenar de personas se unió a la Caminata Nacional
33 en 33 X
Oscar,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo Día</i>,
April 28, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/clamandesdesanlorenzoporlaliberaciondeoscarlopez-1762264.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/clamandesdesanlorenzoporlaliberaciondeoscarlopez-1762264.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn59">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn59" href="#_ednref59" name="_edn59"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[59]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Michelle
Estrada
Torres, “Reclaman excarcelación de Oscar López al cumplir 33
años
preso,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Primera Hora</i>,
May 29, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/reclamanexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezalcumplir33anospreso-1012554/">http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/reclamanexcarcelaciondeoscarlopezalcumplir33anospreso-1012554/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn60">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn60" href="#_ednref60" name="_edn60"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[60]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Cyber
News,
“Senado aprueba resolución por Oscar López,”<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> Radio Isla 1320</i>, May 29, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.radioisla1320.com/?p=38221">http://www.radioisla1320.com/?p=38221</a>; Jorge Gelpí Pagán,
“Resolución en el
Senado por Oscar López,” WAPA TV, May 30, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/politica/resolucion-en-el-senado-por-oscar-lopez_20131122240506.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WapatvNoticias+(WAPA.TV%3A+Noticias)">http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/politica/resolucion-en-el-senado-por-oscar-lopez_20131122240506.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WapatvNoticias+(WAPA.TV%3A+Noticias)</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn61">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn61" href="#_ednref61" name="_edn61"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[61]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Editorial,
“Traiciona
la democracia la prisión de Oscar López,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">El Nuevo Día</i>, June 1, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-traicionalademocracialaprisiondeoscarlopez-1783974.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-traicionalademocracialaprisiondeoscarlopez-1783974.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn62">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn62" href="#_ednref62" name="_edn62"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[62]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>See,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.unionfacts.com/union/AFL-CIO">http://www.unionfacts.com/union/AFL-CIO</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn63">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn63" href="#_ednref63" name="_edn63"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[63]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“AFLCIO
reclama
liberación de Oscar López Rivera: Se une a la campaña a favor
de
excarcelar al prisionero político puertorriqueño,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">El Nuevo Día</i>, September 11, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/aflcioreclamaliberaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1593736.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/aflcioreclamaliberaciondeoscarlopezrivera-1593736.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn64">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn64" href="#_ednref64" name="_edn64"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[64]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>The
Rev.
Geoffrey Black and the Rev. Linda Jaramillo, “Commentary: A
Word on Freedom,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">United
Church of Christ News</i>, December
15, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ucc.org/news/commentary-freedom-Oscar-Lopez-Rivera.html">http://www.ucc.org/news/commentary-freedom-Oscar-Lopez-Rivera.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn65">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn65" href="#_ednref65" name="_edn65"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[65]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Zaira
Cortés
García, “Calle 13 marcha en NYC por libertad de Oscar López
Rivera: René
Pérez, vocalista del grupo, encabezó una caminata de más de
una hora a lo largo
del Puente de Williamsburg junto a líderes comunitarios y
activistas,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El
Diario/La Prensa</i>, November 24, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eldiariony.com/rene-perez-vocalista-calle-13-marcha-nyc-libertad-preso-politico-oscar-lopez-rivera">http://www.eldiariony.com/rene-perez-vocalista-calle-13-marcha-nyc-libertad-preso-politico-oscar-lopez-rivera</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn66">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn66" href="#_ednref66" name="_edn66"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[66]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Vivian
Yee
and Julie Turkewitz, “A Proud Swirl of Sound and Spectacle:
After Scandal,
Puerto Rican Day Parade Goes ‘Back to Its Roots’,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">New York Times</i>, June 8, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/nyregion/after-scandal-puerto-rican-day-parade-goes-back-to-its-roots.html?_r=1#">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/nyregion/after-scandal-puerto-rican-day-parade-goes-back-to-its-roots.html?_r=1#</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn67">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn67" href="#_ednref67" name="_edn67"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[67]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“El
desfile
nacional puertorriqueño rinde homenaje a oscar lópez rivera
como
patriota boricua,” National Puerto Rican Day Parade, Inc.,
April 29, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nprdpinc.org/el-desfile-nacional-puertorriqueno-rinde-homenaje-oscar-lopez-rivera-como-patriota-boricua/#more-559">http://www.nprdpinc.org/el-desfile-nacional-puertorriqueno-rinde-homenaje-oscar-lopez-rivera-como-patriota-boricua/#more-559</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn68">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn68" href="#_ednref68" name="_edn68"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[68]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Diaspora-wide
Demonstrations
for Oscar López Rivera’s Freedom,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">La Respuesta</i>, May 29, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://larespuestamedia.com/olr-33-anniversary/">http://larespuestamedia.com/olr-33-anniversary/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn69">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn69" href="#_ednref69" name="_edn69"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[69]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>José
A.
Delgado, “Presidente Mujica: ‘Puerto Rico es una de las
naciones de América
Latina’: Revela además que intervino a favor del prisionero
político
puertorriqueño Oscar López,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El Nuevo Día</i>,
May 12, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/presidentemujicapuertoricoesunadelasnacionesdeamericalatina-1771720.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/presidentemujicapuertoricoesunadelasnacionesdeamericalatina-1771720.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn70">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn70" href="#_ednref70" name="_edn70"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[70]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>“Presidente
Maduro
abogó por libertad del luchador puertoriqueño Oscar López
Rivera,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Correo del
Orinoco</i>, May 29, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/politica/presidente-maduro-abogo-por-libertad-luchador-puertoriqueno-oscar-lopez-rivera/">http://www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/politica/presidente-maduro-abogo-por-libertad-luchador-puertoriqueno-oscar-lopez-rivera/</a>.<span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"> </span>Indeed,
on the 33<sup>rd</sup>
anniversary of his arrest, the editorial in Puerto Rico’s main
daily newspaper
had this to say: “The government of the United States is
morally impeded from
intervening on behalf of any political prisoner, in any place
in the world,
while the president continues to mock the memory of Mandela,
violate civil and
political rights and Oscar’s right to freedom.” Editorial,
“Traiciona la
democracia la prisión de Oscar López,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">El
Nuevo Día</i>, June 1, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-traicionalademocracialaprisiondeoscarlopez-1783974.html">http://www.elnuevodia.com/editorial-traicionalademocracialaprisiondeoscarlopez-1783974.html</a>.
See
also, Mariano Volcovich, “El Mandela americano: El
puertorriqueño lleva 33
años detenido en Estados Unidos por reclamar la independencia
de su país. Por
qué Rigoberta Menchú, Maravilla Martínez y Calle 13, entre
otras
personalidades, piden por él,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Revista
Veintitrés</i>, June 20, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infonews.com/2014/06/20/mundo-150376-el-mandela-americano.php">http://www.infonews.com/2014/06/20/mundo-150376-el-mandela-americano.php</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn71">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn71" href="#_ednref71" name="_edn71"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[71]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>CyberNews,
“Hija
de Oscar López Rivera regresa de Cuba con distinción solidaria
para el preso
boricua,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Noticel,</i>
September 22,
2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://noticel.com/noticia/148477/hija-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-regresa-de-cuba-con-distincion-solidaria-para-el-preso-boricua.html">http://noticel.com/noticia/148477/hija-de-oscar-lopez-rivera-regresa-de-cuba-con-distincion-solidaria-para-el-preso-boricua.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn72">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn72" href="#_ednref72" name="_edn72"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[72]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Ricardo
Alarcón
de Quesada, “El Mandela de Obama,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Claridad</i>,
September18, 2013,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=F8687F14FF42BBFE654BAC81BAC28001">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=F8687F14FF42BBFE654BAC81BAC28001</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:endnote" id="edn73">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none"><a
style="mso-endnote-id:edn73" href="#_ednref73" name="_edn73"
title=""><sup><span style="mso-special-character:footnote"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times
New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[73]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a>Oscar
López
Rivera, “Al cumplir mis 71,” <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Claridad</i>,
January 13, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=7C36928CBBEC7113F666D16227800DD8">http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=7C36928CBBEC7113F666D16227800DD8</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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