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In this May 18, 2017, file photo, Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera, center, reacts to the crowd as his brother Jose, left, and U.S. Rep Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., join him at a gathering in his honor in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. New York City's annual Puerto Rican Day parade will take place under a cloud of controversy this year because of a decision by organizers to honor Lopez Rivera, who spent decades in prison because of his involvement with the terrorist group FALN. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera reacts to the crowd at a gathering in his honor in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, Thursday, May 18, 2017. Lopez, who was freed from house arrest this week after decades in prison was honored with a parade and a street-way named after him as relatives of those killed in FALN bombings in the '70s and 80's have criticized the moves to honor Lopez and cast him as a hero. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Backlash over plans to honor Puerto Rican militant at parade

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CORRECTS FIRST NAME FROM JOSE TO OSCAR - FILE- In this Jan. 24, 1975, file photo, a New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of a bombing at the annex of Fraunces Tavern in New York. The leftist group Armed Forces of National Liberation, also known as FALN, claimed responsibility for the bombing that killed four people and injured more than 60. Puerto Rico nationalist and FALN leader, Oscar Lopez Rivera, will be freed on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, after serving the longest prison time of any member of the violent separatist group that sought independence for the U.S. territory. (The Daily News via AP, File)

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