[Ppnews] Puerto Rico - Letter from Avelino Gonzalez Claudio's Defense Committee

[Political Prisoner News]

We extend to you our cordial greetings from Mayaguez.

As we have already denounced, Comrade Avelino Gonzalez Claudio was 
arrested by the F.B.I. today, and will be confronting charges which 
will be leveled against him outside of Puerto Rico.

Avelino was one of the comrades that the F.B.I. had been unable to 
capture during its repressive onslaught against our movement in
1985.  That period saw the imprisonment of comrades like Papo Segarra 
Palmer, who spent 19 years of his life in U.S. prisons.

We should not lose sight of the fact that the colonial police of 
Puerto Rico took part in the surveillance that was maintained
against Avelino Gonzalez, and his eventual arrest.  This is after all 
an election year, and our colonial governor is susceptible to the 
pressures of the F.B.I. and a Republican Party in the U.S. which 
despairs over the failures of its undemocratic efforts against 
"terrorism," the very thing that they're guilty of inflicting on the world.

Avelino Gonzalez Claudio is a militant who has pursued the 
decolonization of Puerto Rico.  He is not unlike those who continued 
the struggle of Filiberto Ojeda, those who confronted the U.S. navy 
in Vieques, or those of us who today resist the abuses of the F.B.I. 
in our country.

The comrades of the Frente Socialista, (Socialist Front) the 
Committee for Human Rights and La Nueva Escuela, (The New School) 
call for a demonstration in support of Avelino Gonzalez Claudio, 
on  Monday February 11, 2008 at 3:00PM.  At that time, a hearing will 
be taking place at the colonial "federal" court in San Juan to 
discuss the extradition of the comrade to the United States.  We must 
demand that the comrade remain in Puerto Rico.

Dr. Michael Gonzalez-Cruz



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