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NYC FALN's 5 bombs in Manhattan [11] June 4, 1977: FALN set off a bomb on the fifth floor of the Cook County Building in Chicago. The explosion occurred near the offices of Acting Mayor Michael Bilandic and of George Dunne, the president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. It was Saturday, and no one was in either office.
William Morales (born February 7, 1950) is a Puerto Rican member of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN). He was convicted in February 1979 for possession of explosives, and possession and transportation of explosives and a shotgun.
A federal judge also expressed concerns regarding FALN prisoners held at the Female High Security Unit, Lexington, Kentucky. In the case of Baraldini vs. Meese , the judge found that their exceptionally restrictive conditions of detention were not in response to any legitimate security threat, and were therefore "an exaggerated response" and in ...
Carlos Alberto Torres (born September 19, 1952) is a militant Puerto Rican nationalist. [1] He was convicted and sentenced to 78 years in a U.S. federal prison for seditious conspiracy, conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of the United States. [2]
Torres was one of a few FALN members who was not offered clemency by President Clinton. Clemency was offered only to 16 individuals, who had not been convicted, according to the White House counsel, of killing and maiming. [8] In August 1997, The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied her appeal to vacate her sentence ...
FALN is an acronym for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (English: "Armed Forces of National Liberation"). It can refer to: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rico)
Oscar López Rivera (born January 6, 1943) is a Puerto Rican activist and militant who was a member and suspected leader [1] of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN), a clandestine paramilitary organization devoted to Puerto Rican independence that carried out more than 130 bomb attacks in the United States between 1974 and 1983. [1]
Alejandrina Torres (born June 18, 1939) is a Puerto Rican woman whose trial as a member and role in Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) resulted in her conviction and sentencing of 35 years for seditious conspiracy. [1] Torres was linked to FALN, which claimed responsibility for 100 bombings and six deaths.