Decision by parade to honor Oscar López Rivera, a controversial nationalist hero, stirs anger – and overshadows one of America’s biggest annual gatherings
In one of his last acts as president, Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Oscar López Rivera, a leader of the violent extremist group that took credit for more than 100 bombings on US targets in the 1970s and 80s in a campaign for Puerto Rican independence.
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