Rubén Berríos

Rubén Ángel Berríos Martínez ( born June 21, 1939 in Aibonito, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican lawyer, politician and current President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.

Life

Berríos was born in Aibonito (Puerto Rico). He attended high school and finished this 1957. 1961 he received his bachelors degree in business management and economics at the University of Georgetown, his doctorate in law and a doctorate in international law from the University of Oxford. His first wife was Swedish and his son Ruben was born in Stockholm. Since 1967 he is professor of law at the University of Puerto Rico.

He is the only person in the Puerto Rican history, was admitted to the International Court of Justice.

As Berríos was 31 years old, he became president of the Independence Party ( PIP) and was five times president of that party. In 1972, the 33 -year-old Rubén Berríos was the first time Senator. 1984, 1992, 1996, he was re-elected Senator.

He published the books The Independence of Puerto Rico: Cause and Struggle, Puerto Rico: Nationality and Plebiscite and Towards the Puerto Rican Socialism.

Berríos is admired by many Puerto Ricans, even by some who did not follow his ideology. In his candidacy in 1984 so he got over 80 % of all votes.

Civil offenses

1971 protested against Berríos the U.S. Navy and was therefore detained. As a consequence it was professor at the University of Puerto Rico denied ( law school ). On 8 May 1999, he participated with other U.S. adversaries at a camp on a bomb test site of the U.S. Navy in Puerto Rico. In December 1999, he took his seat in the Senate again.

On 4 May 2000 he was evacuated with the remaining campers by U.S. Marshals and U.S. Marines. The arrest of Berríos was broadcast live in Puerto Rico. Five days later he occupied the base again, but was quickly evacuated again. Since he did not agree with the bomb tests of the U.S. Navy, he occupied the space test a third time. He stayed for five days in the test area before he was arrested again.

Published Books and speeches

• Rubén Berríos: The Independence of Puerto Rico: Cause and Struggle. Presentation to the United Nations, 1973.
• Rubén Berríos: Puerto Rico's decolonization. 1997
• Rubén Berríos: Un Mapa para la Ruta. 2004
• Rubén Berríos: Towards the Puerto Rican Socialism ".

Credentials

• Puerto Rican Independence Party (1998). [ Rubén Berríos: Cápsula Biográfica ]. Puerto Rico.
• Puerto Rico Herald. Biography: Rubén Berríos. Puerto Rico.

• Member of the Senate of Puerto Rico
• Puerto Ricans
• Born in 1939
• Man