NYC Councilwoman Asks Colleagues to Support Absolving Convicted Terrorist

Written by Daniel Sayani

Wednesday, 05 January 2011 16:28

A member of the New York City Council is calling upon her colleagues to support absolving a convicted terrorist. Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverito, a Democrat, circulated a petition last week calling upon her colleagues to support granting parole to Oscar Lopez-Rivera, a leader of the violent paramilitary group Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación National (FALN), which calls for armed conflict in advocating for Puerto Rican independence, as an ideological heir to the Puerto Rican “Nacionalistas,â€