Introduction Movements Eras Organizations Index Contributions
About Organizations
Black Panther Party Black Liberation Army American Indian Movement FALN Weather Underground Earth Liberation Front Animal Liberation Front MOVE Republic of New Afrika Symbionese Liberation Army Los Macheteros United Freedom Front May 19th Communist Organization Young Lords George Jackson Brigade Students for a Democratic Society Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Industrial Workers of the World Communist Party USA Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Brown Berets Socialist Workers Party African People's Socialist Party Nation of Islam
About Young Lords
From Street Gang to Movement: Chicago & Cha Cha Jiménez (1968–1969) The New York Young Lords & the Garbage Offensive (1969) The First People's Church Occupation (1969–1970) The Lincoln Hospital Takeover & the Health Offensives (1970) Julio Roldán, the Tombs & the Second Church Occupation (1970) Infiltration, Repression & the Organization's End (1971–1976)
INFILTRATION, REPRESSION & THE ORGANIZATION'S END (1971–1976)
Infiltration, Repression & the Organization's End (1971–1976)

The Young Lords were saturated targets of the NYPD's Bureau of Special Services and the FBI — the Handschu litigation and later-released files documented undercover officers in the leadership's orbit from 1969 onward, and COINTELPRO-style operations tracked the group as it opened branches in Puerto Rico itself. Members faced continual arrest; supporters counted cases like the Lords defendants swept up around the 1971 armed actions and the surveillance-driven prosecutions of the mid-1970s among the era's political prisoners.

Renamed the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization in 1972, the group turned toward party-building, was wracked by the factionalism its infiltrators fed, and dissolved by 1976. Its veterans — Juan González, Pablo Guzmán, Iris Morales, Denise Oliver — carried its legacy into journalism, law, medicine, and the movements that freed the FALN prisoners a generation later.