Assignment task: Questions for Oscar Lopez Rivera
1. Where are you from in PR?
2. How did your upbringing influence you in your fight for Puerto Rico's freedom?
3. What kind of work did you do in Chicago at the community level?
4. What experiences in Chicago made you decide to fight for Puerto Rico's independence?
5. You received a Bronze star from US military as a soldier in Vietnam. How did the Vietnam experience shape your political conviction?
6. How did you persevere the 36 years of imprisonment in the US?
7. How did you maintain family ties?
8. What are the control units were you placed?
9. How long did it take you to write the book and how did you resist the torture?
10. Once you were released from prison, you have been invited to many countries? What has been your experience in those countries?
11. What do you think of what's going on in PR? Do you think PR will ever be free of US colonialism?