Nationalists Freed
Figueroa Cordero was released in 1978. One year later, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter freed the remaining Nationalists in exchange for Fidel Castro's release of several American CIA agents being held in Cuba on espionage charges. When the Nationalists came home, after more than two decades in prison, they received a heroes' welcome from roughly 5,000 Puerto Ricans at San Juan International Airport.
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“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)