Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule, Political Persecution and the Quest for Human Rights

Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule, Political Persecution and the Quest for Human Rights, published by the State University of New York Press, was co edited by Ramón Bosque-Pérez, Researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College, CUNY), and José Javier Colón Morera (University of Puerto Rico). The book contains eleven chapters authored by academics and intellectuals from the fields of political science, history, sociology, and law, and includes a Foreword by Congressman José E. Serrano. A research essay by Bosque-Pérez (“Political Persecution against Puerto Rican Anti-Colonial Activists in the Twentieth Century”) serves as the opening chapter of the book. The section on Political Persecution in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico also has chapters by María E. Estades-Font, Ivonne Acosta-Lespier, and José (Ché) Paralitici. The section on Contemporary Issues features chapters by José Javier Colón Morera, Jorge Benítez-Nazario, Jan Susler, and Alberto L. Márquez. The last section of the book, The Vieques Case, contains three chapters: one by Jalil Sued-Badillo, another coauthored by César J. Ayala, and Viviana Carro-Figueroa; and the final one by José Javier Colón Morera, and José E. Rivera Santana.