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Ricardo Romero

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1980s
State:Colorado
Address:Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 1010 Bastrop, TX 78602
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Chicano Liberation Puerto Rican Independence Anti-Imperialism
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Biography

Chicano/Mexicano organizer with the MLN (Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Mexicano) jailed for civil contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the FALN and Puerto Rican independence movement. His imprisonment helped link the Chicano-Mexicano and Puerto Rican liberation movements in the early 1980s. 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