Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (Armed Forces
for National Liberation) -FALN- was an anti-colonial and anti-imperialist
clandestine organization based in the diaspora using armed propaganda to advocate for Puerto
Rican independence.
This collection contains a variety of materials by and pertaining to the FALN, its activities and the eleven Puerto Rican political prisoners captured in the early 1980s. In addition to background information and various news clippings, this collection features a number of writings, biographies, poems, and statements from the eleven captured POWs as well as solidarity statements and letters of support. The collection also features FALN communiques, legal background as to the imprisonment of alleged FALN members and a full application, agenda and planning materials for a seminar on terrorism for security forces and the prosecutor's office in Puerto Rico dated 1978.
This collection contains a variety of materials by and pertaining to the FALN, its activities and the eleven Puerto Rican political prisoners captured in the early 1980s. In addition to background information and various news clippings, this collection features a number of writings, biographies, poems, and statements from the eleven captured POWs as well as solidarity statements and letters of support. The collection also features FALN communiques, legal background as to the imprisonment of alleged FALN members and a full application, agenda and planning materials for a seminar on terrorism for security forces and the prosecutor's office in Puerto Rico dated 1978.
Documents
![Declaracion a la Comunidad Internacional](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rico - a people in struggle & crimes of genocide against the Puerto Rican people.
![I am With You in Prison, Alejandrina](images/thumbnails//26851.jpg)
Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Personal account of meeting with Alejandrina Torres at USP Lexington, Kentucky
![The Moral Strength of the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War](images/thumbnails//26852.jpg)
Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Essay on anti-imperialist struggle of Puerto rice, their suffering as a colony, and the suffering and struggle of Puerto Rican prisoners of war in the US
![Due Obedience - Fires](images/thumbnails//26850.jpg)
Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
First chapter of Due Obedience Fire/ Obediencia debida Fuegos. translated by Marilyn Buck.
![Daughter, I Hope to See You When the day of Liberation Dawns](images/thumbnails//26849.jpg)
Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Personal account of the imprisonment of Maria Haydee Torres
![Carmen Valentin](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: "Freedom Now" Women's CommissionFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Profile on Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carmen Valentin
![The Puerto Rican Political Prisoners](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Comite 98 of CaliforniaFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Information on amnesty campaign for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
![The Indispensables](images/thumbnails//26841.jpg)
Publisher: Editorial El conquiFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
The struggle and ideals of Puerto Rican prisoners of war Edwin Cortes, Alejandrina Torres and Alberto Rodriguez and of political prisoner Jose Luis Rodriguez
![El Viejo Vive: En la memoria de nuestra gente](images/thumbnails//26832.jpg)
Publisher: Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural CenterYear: 2005Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Program: Memorial service given in honor of Reverend Jose "El Viejo" Torres
![Incarcerated Puerto Rican Terrorists](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: U.S. Department of JusticeYear: 1999Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Profile of FALN. Includes convictions of FALN members