Juan Enrique Segarra-Palmer is a Puerto Rican activist and one of the founders of the pro-independence group Los Macheteros.
He worked in poor neighborhoods of New York, in prisons in Boston, in anti-mining campaigns and the land reclamation movement in Puerto Rico.
[citation needed] After attending Phillips Academy Andover, he graduated from Harvard University and continued studying in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
[3] The Wells Fargo Depot robbery took place on September 12, 1983, coinciding with the birthdate of Puerto Rican nationalist Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos.
According to the Macheteros, part of the money was used to support impoverished communities in Puerto Rico by funding education, food, housing, clothing, and even toys for children.
[10] All of them were convicted of sedition, which refers to the act of attempting to overthrow the Government of the United States in Puerto Rico by force.
[15] For many years, numerous national and international organizations criticized Segarra-Palmer's incarceration categorizing it as political imprisonment.