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Pedro Archuleta

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1980s
State:New Mexico
Support
Chicano Liberation Puerto Rican Independence Anti-Imperialism
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Biography

New Mexico-based Chicano/Mexicano activist jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the FALN and Puerto Rican independence movement. He was held alongside Ricardo Romero as part of the 1984-85 grand jury resistance wave. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

Case

Federal Bureau of Prisons (various)
Charges: Civil contempt — refusal to testify before federal grand jury
Arrested: Sep 12, 1984