Background on the prisoners and the campaign

Learn about the history of these independentistas and the Puerto Rican resistance to colonial control. The resources below offer a beginning. (Links to external sites open new browser windows.)

• LIBERTAD para los nuestros at www.prisionerospoliticos.com, Versión completa del suplemento aparecido en El Nuevo Día 22 de agosto de 1999
  
  
• National Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
  
  
• Comité98 por un Puerto Rico Libre
  
  
• The Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
  
  
• COINTELPRO - Puerto Rican Independence Movement, Chapter 4 of The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press)

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