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July 27, 2010

Puerto Rican Independentista Freed After 30 Years
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And the Puerto Rican independence activist Carlos Alberto Torres has
been freed on parole after serving thirty years in jail in Illinois for
seditious conspiracy. Hundreds of his supporters gathered in Chicago
Monday to celebrate his release. Torres was a leader of the militant
Puerto Rican independence group the Armed Forces of National Liberation,
or FALN.



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