They were all convicted for sedition, the act of attempting to overthrow the Government of the United States in Puerto Rico by force. Rather, they had been convicted on a variety of charges ranging from bomb making and conspiracy to armed robbery and firearms violations. None of those granted clemency were convicted in any of the actual bombings. Among the other convicted Puerto Rican nationalists there were sentences of as long as 90 years in Federal prisons for offenses including sedition, possession of unregistered firearms, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, interference with interstate commerce by violence and interstate transportation of firearms with intent to commit a crime. None of the bombings of which they were convicted resulted in deaths or injuries.
CARMEN VALENTINE TRIAL
At their trial proceedings, all of the arrested declared their status as prisoners of war, and refused to participate in the proceedings. They had been linked to more than 100 bombings or attempted bombings since 1974, actions whose goal was to achieve independence for Puerto Rico. She was charged with seditious conspiracy and related charges, and sentenced to 90 years. Valentín Pérez and 11 others were arrested on Apin Evanston, Illinois. Arrest and imprisonment Seditious conspiracy Valentín Pérez helped develop various educational and cultural programs for inmates at the maximum security prison for men at Stateville, Illinois. Valentín Pérez was also a founding member of the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Puerto Rican Cultural Center. She was a founding member and president of the José de Diego Bilingual Center and was on the board of directors of Aspira of Illinois. In the community she worked to defeat the Chicago 21 Plan. She sponsored both the Iranian Student Association and the Organization of Arab Students during an intense period of conflict and controversy which led to many physical confrontations with the local police as well as with the Shah's secret police. Valentín Pérez worked at the Central YMCA Community College. Valentín Pérez became active in the community as a young teacher at Tuley High School (later Roberto Clemente High School), demanding that the Chicago Board of Education transfer the incumbent principal, Herbert Fink, and introduce Puerto Rican history and culture in the school's curriculum.
Government on seditious conspiracy charges, she was completing her Doctorate from Loyola University in Chicago. Mel High School in 1965, and received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Northeastern Illinois University and a Masters of Arts in Counselling from Roosevelt University.
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