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Nicknamed "Cha Cha", José Jiménez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, to parents Eugenia Rodríguez Flores (1929–2013), of San Lorenzo, and Antonio Jiménez Rodríguez (1924–1973) of San Salvador, Caguas. In 1949, when Jiménez was an infant, his mother Eugenia moved with him from Puerto Rico to New York City.
The NETA Association (Asociación Pro-Derechos del Confinado, "Association for Prisoners' Rights", Asociación NETA, or simply NETA) is the name of a gang that began in the Puerto Rico prison system and spread to the United States mainland. Although Puerto Rico has many small street gangs claiming its poorer neighborhoods, NETAS is by far the ...
The first of these news releases announced the group's intention; in this document they admitted responsibility for attacks on several locations in New York to weaken the "Yanki capitalist monopoly", and demanded the release of five political prisoners, these were: Lolita Lebrón, Oscar Collazo, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa, and Irvin ...
Excerpts of body-worn camera footage from four corrections officers were released Friday by the New York Attorney General’s Office showing the in-custody beating of 43-year-old inmate Robert ...
Ida Luz was born on July 7, 1950, in Las Marías, Puerto Rico, in 1950.She studied at the Northeastern Illinois University, majoring in psychology and sociology.She participated in community struggles for jobs, housing, and education, and worked at a hospital in the Puerto Rican community that she states blatantly discriminated against the very community it served.
Luis Rosa is a Puerto Rican nationalist [1] [2] [3] and member of the FALN who received a sentence of 75 years for seditious conspiracy and related charges. [3] He was sentenced on 18 February 1981 and subsequently incarcerated in a U.S. federal prison.
Carlos Alberto Torres (born September 19, 1952) is a militant Puerto Rican nationalist. [1] He was convicted and sentenced to 78 years in a U.S. federal prison for seditious conspiracy, conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of the United States. [2]
Young Lords logo on a building wall, December 27, 2003. The Young Lords [a] was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil rights and human rights organization. [2] [3] The group, most active in the late 1960s and 1970s, aimed to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-determination for Puerto Rico, Latino, and colonized ("Third World") people.