Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff
Male, Deceased Person
1907 – 2005
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Who was Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff?
Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff, was the President of the New York chapter of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in the 1930s. In the 1990s Rieckehoff was among the protesters who protested against the United States Navy's use of his birthplace, the island of Vieques, as a bombing range. He stood in front of the committee of the U.S. House of Representatives investigating the situation in Vieques and pleaded for the return of Vieques to the people of Puerto Rico.
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