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<font size=3>We extend to you our cordial greetings from
Mayaguez.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Avelino was one of the comrades that the F.B.I. had been unable to
capture during its repressive onslaught against our movement in
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1985. That period saw the imprisonment of comrades like Papo
Segarra Palmer, who spent 19 years of his life in U.S. prisons.<br><br>
We should not lose sight of the fact that the colonial police of Puerto
Rico took part in the surveillance that was maintained <br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Dr. Michael Gonzalez-Cruz<br><br>
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