- Puerto Rican activist and militant who was one of the leaders of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN), a clandestine paramilitary organization responsible for more than 120 bomb attacks on United States targets
Born: | 06 January 1943 Comment | How old is Oscar López Rivera in 2024? / Age: | 81 years
| Where was Oscar López Rivera born? | San Sebastián, Puerto Rico | Residence: | San Sebastián, Puerto Rico | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
Oscar López Rivera Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is Oscar López Rivera worth? | Under review
| Nationality: | Puerto Rican | Hair color: | Grey | Eyes color: | Brown |
Who is Oscar López Rivera? / Facts
- A fugitive since 1976 and indicted in 1977 and 1979, López Rivera was arrested on May 29, 1981 and tried by the United States government for seditious conspiracy, use of force to commit robbery, interstate transportation of firearms, and conspiracy to transport explosives with intent to destroy government property
- López Rivera maintained that according to international law he was an anticolonial combatant and could not be prosecuted by the United States government
- On August 11, 1981, López Rivera was convicted and sentenced to 55 years in federal prison
- On February 26, 1988 he was sentenced to an additional 15 years in prison for conspiring to escape from the Leavenworth federal prison
- The imprisonment of López Rivera was opposed or supported by individuals and groups representing political, religious, and other constituencies
- Some called him a terrorist, but others said he was a political prisoner
- Several US Congressmen supported López Rivera's release from prison
- US President Bill Clinton offered López Rivera and 13 other convicted FALN members clemency in 1999, on condition they renounce violence, but López Rivera rejected it
- On January 17, 2017, President Barack Obama commuted López Rivera's sentence and he was released from prison on May 17, 2017, after 35 years in prison
- López Rivera had been incarcerated longer than any other member of the FALN
- On February 9, 2017, he was moved from an Indiana prison to Puerto Rico, where he completed the last three months of his sentence under house arrest before being released on May 17, 2017
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