Nationalists Freed
Figueroa Cordero was released in 1978. One year later, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter freed the remaining Nationalists in exchange for Fidel Castro's release of several American CIA agents being held in Cuba on espionage charges. When the Nationalists came home, after more than two decades in prison, they received a heroes' welcome from roughly 5,000 Puerto Ricans at San Juan International Airport.
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