The National Security Council during the Carter Administration and the liberation of the Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1979

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contents The National Security Council during the Carter Administration and the liberation of the Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1979 Francisco Ortiz Santini Sociología Puerto Rico human rights political prisoners Carter Administration Puerto Rican nationalists The freedom of nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Rafael CancelMiranda, Oscar Collazo and Irving Flores, released fromprison in 1979, did not respond to an exclusivelyhumanitarian gesture by a president whose administrationpromoted respect for human rights. Their release cameabout more as a consequence of the growing “intermestic”(international and domestic) crisis resulting from thechallenge the four posed to the United States legal system.Through documentation and analysis of the NationalSecurity Council (NSC) declassified Carter Administrationdocuments, in this paper the author proposes to reveal theseries related of events and internal NSC debates that finallyled to the release of the Nationalists, thus permitting theUnited States to save face internationally and domesticallyin view of the unresolved colonial dispute affecting thepeople of Puerto Rico. 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719209 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.2 Vol.XIX
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spellingShingle The National Security Council during the Carter Administration and the liberation of the Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1979
Francisco Ortiz Santini
Sociología
Puerto Rico
human rights
political prisoners
Carter Administration
Puerto Rican nationalists
The National Security Council during the Carter Administration and the liberation of the Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1979 Francisco Ortiz Santini Sociología Puerto Rico human rights political prisoners Carter Administration Puerto Rican nationalists The freedom of nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Rafael CancelMiranda, Oscar Collazo and Irving Flores, released fromprison in 1979, did not respond to an exclusivelyhumanitarian gesture by a president whose administrationpromoted respect for human rights. Their release cameabout more as a consequence of the growing “intermestic”(international and domestic) crisis resulting from thechallenge the four posed to the United States legal system.Through documentation and analysis of the NationalSecurity Council (NSC) declassified Carter Administrationdocuments, in this paper the author proposes to reveal theseries related of events and internal NSC debates that finallyled to the release of the Nationalists, thus permitting theUnited States to save face internationally and domesticallyin view of the unresolved colonial dispute affecting thepeople of Puerto Rico. 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719209 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.2 Vol.XIX
title The National Security Council during the Carter Administration and the liberation of the Puerto Rican Nationalists in 1979
topic Sociología
Puerto Rico
human rights
political prisoners
Carter Administration
Puerto Rican nationalists
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719209