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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 three released former prisoners received heroes welcomes by their supporters upon their return to Puerto Rico. [14] The presidential clemency read as follows: [ 15 ] The President today granted clemency to Andres Figueroa Cordero, convicted in 1954 along with three other Puerto Ricans in connection with the shooting and wounding of several ...
Juan Enrique Segarra-Palmer is a Puerto Rican activist and one of the founders of the pro-independence group Los Macheteros.. In 1989, he was convicted of seditious conspiracy, as well as interference with interstate commerce in connection with the Wells Fargo Depot robbery, which netted more than US$7 million (equivalent to more than $21.4 million in 2023).
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.
Cancel Miranda was born in the town of Mayagüez, located on the western coast of Puerto Rico.His father, Rafael Cancel Rodríguez, was president of the Mayagüez chapter of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and his mother was a member of the Daughters of Freedom, an organization which was the women's branch of the Nationalist Party.
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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.