Eduardo Cruz

AKA: Pancho Cruz
Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1970s
State:New York
Support
Puerto Rican Independence
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Biography

Eduardo "Pancho" Cruz was a young Puerto Rican independence activist who became the subject of a 1972 defense campaign — the Eduardo Cruz Defense Committee and the pamphlet "Repression and Colonization: The Case of Eduardo 'Pancho' Cruz" — which described him as framed and convicted and called for his freedom. Specifics of the charge and sentence are not well documented.

Case

Charges: Framed and convicted (per the Eduardo Cruz Defense Committee, 1972); specific charge not documented
Sentence: Not documented Verdict as recorded: Yes — per the 1972 defense materials
Convicted: Yes

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