Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional
Dublin Core
Title
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional
Subject
A collection of items regarding the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional or FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation), ranging from the 1970s to the 1980s.
Description
Within this collection are documents, from primary source communiques to maps and images, concerning the actions of the FALN in New York City from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. All items in the collection revolve around the bombings perpetrated by the FALN over the course of their existence primarily in NYC, although there are mentions to their activities elsewhere in Chicago, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico.
Creator
Steven R. Garcia
Publisher
Bombs Don't Kill
Date
1970s - 1980s
Contributor
Latin American Studies Online Archive, ESRI, Social Explorer
Rights
File(s) used in this entry are not the original property of the uploading entity nor this archive. All rights go to original content creators and primary archive as listed in the Publisher section.
Relation
N/A
Format
PDFs, Text, Images
Language
English and Spanish
Type
Primary and Secondary Sources
Identifier
N/A
Coverage
Puerto Rican revolutionary movements (1970s-1990s)
Collection Items
FALN Communique No. 1
Dated October 26, 1974, this document details actions undertaken by 'commando units' of the FALN on 'mayor [sic] Yanki corporations in New York City.' The purpose of these attacks were to commemorate the October 1950 uprising. The bombs targeted…
FALN Communique No. 2
Dated December 11, 1974, this document details the 'dynamite attack' carried out on 'members of the New York police force' in an area known as 'El Barrio.' Document claims that this bombing was in response to the 'brutal murder of Martin 'Tito' Perez…
FALN Communique No. 3
Dated January 24, 1975, this document details the bombing of the Fraunces Tavern 'with reactionary corporate executive inside.' This bombing was allegedly carried out 'in retaliation for the CIA ordered bomb that murdered Angel Luis Chavonnier and…
FALN Communique No. 4
Dated April 2, 1975, this document details an attack carried out on the Anglers Club in New York City, an 'exclusive millionaires club that boasts of members like the Rockefellers,' as a 'retalitory [sic] attack against that sector of the North…
FALN Communique No. 5
Dated June 14, 1975, this document details a series of attacks made 'in solidarity' with the NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade, with bombs targeting sites in Chicago the week before and multiple banks and federal government buildings on or around June 14.…
FALN Communique No. 6
Dated October 27, 1975, this document details a series of attacks carried out in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the October 30, 1950 'revolution' in Puerto Rico against 'yanki [sic] domination' and the first year of the FALN's existence. The…
FALN Communique No. 7
Dated June 25, 1976, this document details the actions of 'armed commando units' and the 'dynamite attacks' they undertook against 'yanki [sic] monopoly capitalist and repressive institutions' in the South Bronx and Manhattan areas. The document,…
FALN Communique No. 8
Dated July 12, 1976, this document details a series of attacks carried out through incendiary bombs near Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, NYC. The purpose of these attacks were in 'protest of the presence of 22 colonial leeches attending a…
FALN Communique No. 9
Dated around 1976, this document details a summary of the 'offensive' launched by the FALN against 'Yanki [sic] imperialism.' Critically, the document is written as a tribute to the late Don Pedro Albizu Campos, the father of the Puerto Rican…
FALN Communique No. 10
Dated September 21, 1976, this document details an attack on 'capitalist enterprise,' in this case the Hilton Hotel in New York City. The attack was in response to the 'colonial governor' of Puerto Rico, Rafael Hernandez Colon, and his cooperation…