Lopez Rivera — who did 35 years behind bars for his ties to the Puerto
Rican terror group FALN — was on the first float out of the gate at the Manhattan parade, and speaker pal Melissa Mark - Viverito hopped on to join him at 62nd Street.
Not exact matches
Lawmakers who publicly supported honoring a co-founder of the FALN
terror group at this year's Puerto
Rican Day Parade say they felt strong - armed by an offer from the Council speaker that they couldn't refuse.
There is a new controversy over the Puerto
Rican Day Parade's plan to honor a former leader of a
group blamed for
terror bombings in the 1970s.
There is a new controversy over the Puerto
Rican Day Parade's plan to honor a former leader of a
group blamed for
terror bombings in the 1970s as a Republican candidate for mayor is demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio bow out of the march.
Local victims of bombings by the
terror group FALN watched in disgust Sunday as one of the murderous organization's former leaders led Manhattan's Puerto
Rican Day Parade — riding out in front as the guest of honor with his fist thrust defiantly in the air.
Lawmakers who publicly supported honoring a co-founder of the murderous FALN
terror group at this year's Puerto
Rican Day Parade say they felt strong - armed by an offer they couldn't refuse...
She staunchly defended the decision of the Puerto
Rican Day Parade this year to honor Oscar Lopez, a former member of a Puerto
Rican nationalist
group that conducted a campaign of bombing and
terror in the 1970s.