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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“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather than achievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”
—Phyllis Rose (b. 1942)