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	Rubén Berríos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berrios became president of the PIP when he was 31 years old and has been president of it five times.
		Berrios founded the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL), is a member of the Executive Council of the Latin American Human Rights Association (ALDHU), and Honorary President of the Socialist International (SI).
		Berrios is put under arrest by U.S. Marshals on May 4, 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruben_Berrios (1008 words)

	Rubén Berríos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a lawyer, Berrios is the only man in Puerto Rican history to be acredited by the international court.
		Similarly to what he did in Culebra 30 years before, Berrios didn't recognize the jurisdiction of the American judicial forum in Puerto Rico, and din't present any defense whatsoever.
		Because of the efforts of Berrios and many others, the U.S. Navy abandoned its facilities in Vieques on May 1, 2003.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ruben_berrios (996 words)

	Political Sentences
		Berrios and his companions, as in other previous appearances before the federal court, had already declared at the bail hearing Tuesday, 01 April, they do not recognize the jursidiction of the U.S. court in Puerto Rico, and had been denied bail.
		Messages from the huge loudspeakers had just announced that Ruben Berrios and one of his companions - repeat 'offenders' - had just been sentenced inside the imposing building across the street from where some four- or five-hundred protesters stood or marched - to serve four months in prison.
		Berrios' other three companions had just been given two-month sentences.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views01/0518-07.htm (1021 words)

	Guest Comment
		A third-party candidate, Ruben Berrios of the Puerto Rico Independence Party, is likely to swing the election to the Statehood Party's Pesquera, rather than to the challenger, Sila Calderon of the Popular Democratic Party.
		Berrios admitted his group supported a resolution of Puerto Rico's status, but that did not make them equal to the Statehooders: "Lizards and electricians both climb electrical poles, but they are not the same."
		Berrios spent over a year living on Vieques in an attempt to block further training there.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/commentprint110600k.html (1590 words)

	CNN.com - Thousands gather for annual rally in Puerto Rico - September 23, 2000
		Berrios camped on the Navy's range in Vieques for a year to stop the bombing before federal agents cleared 200 protesters in May.
		Berrios urged those gathered at the rally to bring young people, current non-voters and those from other parties into the fold of the independence party.
		A former senator, Berrios is running for governor in the island's November elections.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/23/carib.puertorico.inde.ap (455 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Club Latino president Juan C. Fernandez '79 introduced Ruben Berrios as the speaker for the se- cond in the series "The Puerto Rican Status Question." Berrios, former president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), is a former professor of inter- national law at the University of Puerto Rico and holds a PhD in economics.
		However, Berrios feels that his party's rise in political stature is inevitable: the PIP is "the party of the future," unlike the PPD, "the party of the past." He noted that the main argument used by statehood advocates is that benefits for the poor will increase, a prospect.
		Con- currently, he feels the PIP must Once independent, Berrios sees persuade the US Congress that it his nation's future with that ofthe is in the US's own interest to al- third world nations of the low Puerto Rican independence, Western Hemisphere.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_098/TECH_V098_S0502_P001.txt (1548 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Vieques protesters: 'We'll be back' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mr Berrios ran his seafront tent camp with strict discipline, allowing no alcohol and ensuring the beach was combed daily.
		A law professor educated at Oxford and Yale, Mr Berrios took part in a similar civil disobedience campaign on Vieques' sister island of Culebra, and was jailed briefly for his actions there in 1973.
		Despite his popularity, Mr Berrios and his party generally receive only around 5% of the vote at most - a reflection of Puerto Ricans' hesitation to sever their ties to the United States.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/737623.stm (500 words)

	Untitled3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the Navy's chief opponents, Puerto Rico Sen. Ruben Berrios, who has been camped out in protest for five months on a beach near the Navy's firing range in Vieques, was not invited to testify.
		Berrios supports the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States.
		A strong ally of President Clinton's and a proponent of statehood, Rossello has complained about the risks posed to the island's 9,300 residents and said he wants the Navy to end all operations in Vieques.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/oct15/hearing.htm (362 words)

	[No title]
		He is seen zipping his pants, and there is a discussion about how his pants are tight and he was just ``eating.'' In the next scene, the actor talks about ``plugging the hole,'' while pointing toward a female companion.
		(Ruben gesticulating.) Puerto Ricans can come and eat their BEEP (you can make out the start of the word asses before the beep sounds) and they can open them up like walnuts.
		Our primary concern with this episode were the Ruben Berrios segments and not these other two brief vignettes.
	www.fcc.gov /eb/Orders/2001/da01792.html (3957 words)

	Peace for Vieques
		Berrios and Fernandez were charged only with misdemeanor trespass for having re-entered the range after their arrests May 4.
		The former chief judge of the federal court in Puerto Rico wrote in Spanish, "Vieques is a silent prayer for peace and renewal before the Holy Sacrament.
		The next day, Berrios, who had resigned his legislative seat in 1999 to live at the Independence Party's civil disobedience camp for a year until the May 4 invasion, announced he had prostrate cancer.
	www.serve.com /~nukeresister/nr120/nr120vieques.html (3361 words)

	New York Daily News Online \| News and Views \| Beyond the City \| Vieques Protest Victory-Bound
		Ruben Berrios, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, is arrested yesterday inside the Navy’s Camp Garcia on Vieques.
		About 40 demonstrators trying to act as human shields were said to be hiding in the underbrush within the target area.
		Among them are the mayor of Vieques and Ruben Berrios, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.
	www.englishfirst.org /vieques/viequesgonzalez5101.htm (678 words)

	book review article
		Rueben Berrios summarizes the research on development aid and finds mixes results.
		One brochure brags that 90 percent of food aid funds stay in the United States.
		Of the three types of contracts used by the government, the worst, and unfortunately the most common, is the cost-plus contract.
	goodtrue.tripod.com /berrios.htm (421 words)

	Council of State Governments - Eastern Regional Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This year’s gubernatorial election in Puerto Rico is a contest among veteran Commonwealth officials.
		The three candidates for the governor’s seat are Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rico’s non-voting U.S. Congressional representative since 2001; Pedro Rosselló, governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001; and Ruben Berrios, running for the sixth time in his career.
		Berrios is running with the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), which proposes sovereign status for the island.
	www.csgeast.org /page.asp?id=weeklynewsbulletin47 (1114 words)

	TheExperiment - Federal Judge Refuses To Try Vieques Related Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - In an action that the newspaper El Nuevo Dia described as without precedent, U.S. District Judge Carmen Consuelo Vargas de Cerezo on Friday inhibited herself motu proprio from presiding at the trial of Puerto Rico Independence Party President Ruben Berrios, whose case was assigned to her court the previous day.
		The ex-chief judge of the federal court in Puerto Rico, Vargas de Cerezo, declared in a dramatic written statement she will have nothing to do with the case.
		She indicated in her statement her strong support for the Vieques cause, and by implication her support for the highly publicized efforts of Berrios to prevent a resumption of U.S. Navy bombing practice there.
	www.theexperiment.org /articles_printer.php?news_id=258 (268 words)

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		Ruben Berrios, a Puerto Rican legislator and one of dozens of protesters camped out on a Vieques beach littered with unexploded munitions, labeled the President's plan "disgraceful."
		"It is typical of the President's actions," Berrios told El Nuevo Dia, a San Juan, Puerto Rico newspaper.
		Berrios says he has no plans to leave the Vieques beach encampment.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/dec10/clinton.htm (764 words)

	The Yale Globalist
		Interview with Ruben Berríos Martinez, President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.
		Rubén Berríos Martínez has been president of the Puerto Rican Independence party five times in a row and is currently honorary president of one of the biggest associations of socialist, social democratic and labor parties, Socialist International.
		I feel very honored to have given up my liberty for those four months, because it furthered Puerto Rican national pride by such a great degree.
	www.yale.edu /globalist/archive/issue12/interview-ruben-martinez.htm (1519 words)

	RW ONLINE:Federal Govt. Jails Vieques Protesters
		Especially outrageous are the sentences imposed on Ruben Berrios, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, and Rev. Al Sharpton.
		The court imposed a four-month sentence on Berrios and a 90-day sentence on Sharpton, The judges declared that the two were given heavier sentences because they had prior convictions for arrests in demonstrations (in Sharpton's case, a 1987 conviction for civil disobedience to protest a racist killing in Howard Beach, Queens).
		In a statement condemning the jailing of the Vieques protesters, the National Coordinating Committee of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation said: "The bombing of Vieques is a crime.
	rwor.org /a/v23/1100-99/1106/vieques.htm (860 words)

	Got Puerto Ricans? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In order “to move the status issue forward” has been the main description being used by all to describe this week’s meetings in Puerto Rico by the White House’s Task Force on Puerto Rico Status.
		Heading down to the island will be both co chairs of the group, Ruben Barrales, Director of the Intergovernmental Affairs Office at the White House, and Noel Francisco, Deputy Attorney General.
		Throughout their visit, they plan on meeting with Governor Calderon, Resident Commissioner Aníbal Acevedo Vila, Ruben Berrios, and Pedro Rossello, as well as other community leaders regarding the topic.
	virtualboricua.org /Docs/cefus01.htm (450 words)

	VIEQUES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More pictures will be added in the next few days.
		Pictures of the arrest of Ruben Berrios and other pollitics.
		Habran fotos del arresto de Ruben Berrios y otros politicos.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/albjose/vieques.html (55 words)

	Civil Disobedience at Vieques - 28/4/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to the press 88 people have been arrested so far, including pro-statehood Senator Norma Burgos, environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., actor Edward James Olmos, and local singer-songwriter Robi Draco Rosa.
		Several others remain hidden inside the target range, including Dámaso García, the Mayor of Vieques, and Ruben Berrios, President of the pro-independence party.
		The U.S. Navy has bombed in spite of knowing of the human presence at the range.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/vieques37.htm (136 words)

	Puerto Rico protest leader ready to be arrested - 5/1/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"We're prepared to pay the price of incarceration, but the others are going to pay a high political price," Independence Party chief Ruben Berrios said Sunday.
		But Berrios has remained since militants invaded the range after the April 19, 1999, death of a civilian guard in a bombing range accident.
		The Navy claims Vieques is essential for maintaining combat readiness in practicing the precision-bombing important in recent conflicts, from the Persian Gulf War to Kosovo.
	www.detnews.com /2000/nation/0005/01/05020004.htm (389 words)

	Polls: Rossello leads Puerto Rico race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Third challenger Ruben Berrios, making his fifth run for governor for the small Puerto Rican Independence Party, is calling for the "oldest colony in the world" to become a separate country.
		Many Puerto Ricans see his ideals as impractical, and in 2000 Berrios came away with 5 percent of the vote.
		Debate over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations has long defined party politics here, but many voters say this race may also come down to personalities - and which candidate voters feel they can trust.
	virtualboricua.org /Docs/ap21.htm (625 words)

	Church-sponsored march may determine future of anti-Navy campaign in Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The march, during which participants will walk through San Juan in silence while carrying white flags, is sponsored by a coalition of Catholic and Protestant church leaders, and has won endorsements in recent days from a wide spectrum of political and civic leaders here.
		On February 16, independence leader Ruben Berrios, a Puerto Rican senator currently camped out on the bombing range, urged his followers to participate in the march.
		According to Juan Vera, bishop of the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico and one of the march's sponsors, the wide variety of participants will reflect how the struggle over Vieques has changed.
	gbgm-umc.org /latinam-caribbean/puerto-rico/vieques/gbgm021600pjsc.stm (1202 words)

	Special Collections: John Egerton Papers, Box Listing: Boxes 1-20
		Culebra, Puerto Rico and Ruben Berrios Martinez (1971)-Manuscript
		Culebra, Puerto Rico and Ruben Berrios Martinez-Research and Background Materials-Interviews
		Culebra, Puerto Rico and Ruben Berrios Martinez-Research and Background Materials-Articles
	www.library.vanderbilt.edu /speccol/egertonj_boxlist1.shtml (663 words)

	Puerto Rico electoral office declares new governor - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		With all votes recounted, Acevedo Vila of the Popular Democratic Party received 963,303 votes (48.4 per cent) compared with 959,737 (48.22 per cent) for Rossello, election officials said.
		Third-party candidate Ruben Berrios, who supports full independence for the island, garnered 54,551 votes (2.74 per cent).
		On Thursday, the State Elections Commission announced that Acevedo Vila was the likely winner of the recount with 99.9 per cent of the votes counted.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20041228T210000-0500_72224_OBS_PUERTO_RICO_ELECTORAL_OFFICE_DECLARES_NEW_GOVERNOR.asp (188 words)

	BETWEEN THE LINES 6/01/01 Archive: Bush energy plan; Vieques civil disobedience hearing; Leonard Peltier
		Since the accidental death of 24-year-old civilian security guard David Sanes by an errant bomb in April 1999, nationalist outrage throughout Puerto Rico has led to growing opposition to the training exercises.
		Among those arrested last month was Ruben Berrios, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.
		He had previously been arrested after camping out for nearly a year on the bombing range after Sanes' death.
	www.wpkn.org /wpkn/wpkn/news/btl060601.html (1142 words)

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