Cartas a Karina (English and Spanish Edition)

In 2013 Oscar López Rivera began writing to his granddaughter Karina the series that would come to be known as Cartas a Karina. These are the letters of a man imprisoned for the crime of seditious conspiracy, the thought crime of wanting to see Puerto Rico free of foreign domination the same kind of charge railed at Gandhi and Mandela. He has maintained his political vision and humanity despite 35 years of dehumanizing imprisonment, and is widely regarded as the Mandela of Puerto Rico. López Rivera is a prolific writer as well as an accomplished and respected painter, a vocation begun during twelve years of solitary confinement. The compelling content, language, and often lyric quality of Cartas a Karina make this bilingual collection an indispensable reflection on Puerto Rico s status, the plight of the Puerto Rican diaspora, and the dehumanizing conditions behind US prison walls. Most of all, Cartas a Karina stands as an eloquent and irrefutable argument for Oscar López Rivera s immediate and unconditional release.