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Roberto Caldero

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1980s
State:Illinois
Support
Puerto Rican Independence Anti-Imperialism
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Biography

Chicago Puerto Rican community organizer and MLN activist jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the FALN. His resistance was part of a broad campaign of non-collaboration by independentistas in the early 1980s. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

Case

Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago
Charges: Civil contempt — refusal to testify before federal grand jury investigating FALN
Arrested: Jun 30, 1983