Freed Puerto Rican Nationalist won't comply with terms of parole
A Puerto Rican nationalist who spent 15 years in a Pennsylvania prison for armed robbery said Thursday that he was prepared to return to prison rather than comply with the terms of his parole. Antonio Camacho Negron, who was freed Tuesday from a prison in Allenwood, Pa., vowed not to meet with his parole officer upon his return to Puerto Rico, refusing to recognize any institution in this U.S. Caribbean territory. "Puerto Rico is a colony," Camacho, 59, said in a telephone interview from his sister's home in Hartford, Conn. "If I don't vote for president or for congressional lawmakers, why should I submit myself to their laws? No dignified or respectable American would accept these conditions." Camacho was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1988 for his involvement in the 1983 robbery of more than $7 million from a Wells Fargo armored truck in West Hartford, Conn. He was released and returned to jail twice, in 1998 and 2002, for ignoring parole terms. Camacho said he is trying to arrange his identification papers so he can return to Puerto Rico. He said he fully expects to return to prison once back on the island. "I've never been free. I'm still not free," he said. [more 
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