The Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera, recently released after serving 36 years in prison for alleged sedition, was chosen to head the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York and honored as a Hero of National Freedom. This distinction has unleashed a political firestorm and a boycott by some of the parade’s prominent commercial sponsors. López Rivera commented on the controversy surrounding this year’s parade in a recent interview. Marco Vinicio González reports from New York.
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