[Peace-discuss] Venezuelan President Maduro Offers to Exchange Leopoldo Lopez for Puerto Rican Activist Jailed in the U.S..

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Venezuelan President Maduro Offers to Exchange Leopoldo Lopez for Puerto
Rican Activist Jailed in the U.S.. 

Description: Oscar Lopez Rivera was convicted in 1981 of seditious
conspiracy for seeking to secure Puerto Rican independence.

Oscar Lopez Rivera was convicted in 1981 of seditious conspiracy for seeking
to secure Puerto Rican independence. | Photo: indymedia.org

Published 4 January 2015 (13 hours 45 minutes ago) 

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Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera has been in prison for 33 years.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday he would consider the
release of the jailed far-right opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez if the
United States agreed to release Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican
nationalist currently held in a U.S. prison.

Leopoldo Lopez was arrested in February after he helped launch a three-month
wave of violent opposition demonstrations seeking Maduro's ouster. Streets
were blocked by violent masked protestors and dozens were killed, mostly at
the hands of extreme right-wing terrorists.

Maduro suggested he could send Lopez to the United States if Washington
secured the release of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was convicted in 1981 of
seditious conspiracy along with other militants who sought to secure Puerto
Rican independence.

"The only way I would use (presidential) powers would be to put (Leopoldo
Lopez) on a plane, so he can go to the United States and stay there, and
they would give me Oscar Lopez Rivera - man for man," Maduro said during a
televised broadcast.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Caracas said he had no immediate comment
on the issue.

Negotiations between Uruguay and the U.S. are
<http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Negotiations-Underway-to-Free-Puerto-
Ricos-Oscar-Lopez-Rivera-20141224-0015.html> currently underway to release
Lopez Rivera. Uruguayan President Mujica requested in an open letter to
President Obama the release of the political activist.

Puerto Rican Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has also called on the White
House to release the nationalist. The Puerto Rican singer Rene Perez, from
the famous group Calle 13, has been vocal in his support of Lopez Rivera.

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