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<h1 id="reader-title">López Rivera: ‘No Puerto Rican Should
Submit to the Wishes of a Corporation’</h1>
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<div id="reader-estimated-time">May 26, 2017<br>
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<p>After <a
href="http://latinousa.org/2017/05/17/press-conference-day-freed-oscar-lopez-rivera-calls-goya-boycott/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">calling for
a boycott of Goya Foods</a> last week after the
company withdrew sponsorship from the 2017 National
Puerto Rican Day Parade, Oscar López Rivera shared
additional thoughts this week about <a
href="http://www.latinorebels.com/2017/05/23/national-puerto-rican-day-parade-board-responds-again-to-oscar-lopez-rivera-controversy/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the
controversy</a> surrounding the parade honoring him as
a National Freedom Hero, saying that Puerto Ricans rely
too much on corporations anyway, <a
href="http://www.noticel.com/noticia/203509/oscar-lopez-blames-fbi-for-parade-controversy.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to
a English-language story</a> from Puerto Rico’s
Noticel outlet.</p>
<p>“No Puerto Rican should submit to the wishes of a
corporation. Especially Puerto Ricans who love our
country,” López Rivera said in the Noticel story, which
translated his remarks in Spanish from an interview he
had with Radio Isla.</p>
<p>“I believe <a
href="http://www.latinorebels.com/2017/05/23/national-puerto-rican-day-parade-board-responds-again-to-oscar-lopez-rivera-controversy/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Goya,
JetBlue, the Yankees, and Daily News</a> are entitled
to do whatever they want. We Puerto Ricans have the
right to do whatever we want,” López Rivera added later,
according to the story.</p>
<p>“I believe in boycotts. We would need to use our power
as consumers. A boycott would be perfect, because
corporations cannot tell us what to do,” López
Rivera said in the interview as well.</p>
<p>Besides the anti-corporate creed, López Rivera
suggested in the Noticel article’s account of the Radio
Isla interview that the FBI might also be influencing
the campaign against him.</p>
<p>“I believe there are certain factors involved,” López
Rivera said in the article. “There’s the FBI, for
example. They could never do anything with us, because
for all of us who were imprisoned for many years, they
don’t have the tiniest bit of evidence that we did what
they say we did… I imagine that maybe they’re involved
in this, because last December, 32 FBI agents sent a
letter to (Barack) Obama telling him not to release me.”</p>
<p>“[The FBI] hates the pro-independence movement,” López
Rivera added. “They have always been willing to destroy
the Puerto Rican pro-independence movement. They’re
behind this.”</p>
<p>“Previously, former prisoners like Lolita Lebrón
have been honored in the NY Puerto Rican Day Parade, and
there has never been a controversy like this year,” he
said.</p>
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<p>“That board [of the National Puerto Rican Parade] has
the right to choose whomever they want, and they chose
me this year, and I am extremely grateful. That decision
deserves to be respected,” López Rivera added.</p>
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