Santiago, Chile _BAR_ Elizabeth Rivera

Elizabeth Rivera ( elimaguire) , also a Global Voices contributor, wrote about her interest in moving around to discover new places

Puerto Rican Oscar López Rivera has been jailed for 35 years, convicted of seditious conspiracy because of his commitment to Puerto Rico's independence.

López Rivera is serving a 70 year sentence, making him the longest imprisoned political prisoner in Puerto Rico's history.

A period of authoritarian rule under General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923 1931) ended with the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic.

Mr. Treminio Rivera (Nicaragua) (spoke in Spanish) I would like to say that I share the pain of the people and Government of El Salvador in connection with the difficulties caused by the hurricane.

On 11 September 1924, National Day of Catalonia, he was beaten at a demonstration against the banning of the Catalan language by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.

Ms. Rivera (Uruguay) (spoke in Spanish) My delegation would like to take this opportunity to express our thanks for the intensive rethinking process in which we are involved.

It separates the Pacific Plate to the west from (north to south) the North American Plate, the Rivera Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate, and the Antarctic Plate.

Two such examples were the cases of Oscar Lopes Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres serving disproportionately long prison sentences who were subjected to psychological torture, including restrictions on visits by their family.

Claudia Calderon, Yasiri Castro, Charlie Rivera, Chemi Gonzalez, Ariel Hernandez Domenech, Marina Reyes Franco, Rojo Robles, Mara Pastor, Ruben Gonzalez, Raymond Forbes, and Maria Ines Lefebre, just to mention a few, all professionals and all successful.

In this episode of the Global Voices Hangout series GV Face, we discuss the movement to pardon Oscar López Rivera with the team that covers Puerto Rico for Global Voices Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, our Spanish Language Editor Angel Carrión, musician and GV contributor and historian and GV contributor Ana Gabriela Calderón. You can sign the White House petition to pardon Oscar here and read Oscar's moving letter to his granddaughter, Where the sea breathes here.

These include the homicides of the mayor of Rivera (Huila) in August a teacher in the municipality of Tame (Arauca) in April, and a 70 year old Arhuaco mamo (tribal elder) in November in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.