Chicano Political Prisoners — Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez & Alberto Aranda (Dec 7, 1990 Tribunal)

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Submission of the Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez and Alberto Aranda (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Mexicano) to the December 7, 1990 Special International Tribunal on U.S. political prisoners, held on International Human Rights Day. Documents the cases of two Chicano political prisoners held in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Alvaro Hernandez (life sentence out of Pecos County, eight consecutive years in solitary as retaliation for his role in Ruiz v. Estelle and other prisoner-rights litigation) and Alberto Aranda (18 years for a $1.50 robbery, plus 40 years added in 1989 for an alleged assault on a guard). Includes essays by both prisoners written from their cells in Huntsville. Issued under the framework that the Chicano-Mexicano Nation is a captive nation, with Hernandez and Aranda as members of liberationist forces against Yankee colonialism.