EDWIN CORTES
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Cortes had just been released from Federal Prison pursuant to a clemency agreement whereby he renounced violence. He had been jailed for illegal F.A.I.N. activities.
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Edwin Cortes was a Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the FALN who received a sentence of 35 years for seditious conspiracy and other charges. He was sentenced on October 5, 1985, and incarcerated in a U.S. federal prison. However, he was released early from prison, after President Bill Clinton extended a clemency offer to him on February 19, 1999.
