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faln-85.jpg
Dated around 1983, this picture shows Ricardo Romero, Julio Rosado, Maria Cueto, Steven Guerra and Andres Rosado (from left to right), all known FALN members, standing together before being sent to prison for standing in contempt of a New York grand…

1980SpanishCensus.png
Based on Social Explorer, this map focuses on five key concentrations of Puerto Ricans (or Spanish speakers) in NYC. Notably, the map tracks people of Spanish origin or descent. This category may broadly encompass people from or with descent from…

1970SpanishCensus.png
Based on Social Explorer, this map focuses on five key concentrations of Puerto Ricans (or Spanish speakers) in NYC. Notably, the map tracks people of Spanish origin or descent. This category may broadly encompass people from or with descent from…

1960PRBornCensus.png
Based on Social Explorer, this map focuses on five key concentrations of Puerto Ricans in NYC. Notably, the map tracks people originally born in Puerto Rico, a category outlined during the United States 1960 Census, to determine the location and…

GISFinalLab2018.pdf
Tracing FALN bomb incidents throughout the 1970s, this map compares these locations to two other data: clusters of Spanish-speaking colonias and the proximity of emergency response services (namely the police, the fire department, and hospitals). In…

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…

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. 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. 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. 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…
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