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PUERTO RICAN independence leader Oscar Lopez Rivera returned home on Thursday after over 35 years in a US jail ahead of his impending freedom in a few months time.
Mr Lopez flew into the island’s capital San Juan from the Terra Haute prison in Indiana, escorted by Mayor Carmen Yulin and US congressman Luis Gutierrez, who helped secure his transfer.
The independence leader was escorted to his daughter’s apartment, where he will serve the rest of his sentence, ending on May 17, under house arrest.
The transfer came after former US president Barack Obama commuted Mr Lopez’s 55-year sentence last month.
His arrival was kept secret until just hours before his plane touched down, angering supporters who wanted to give him a hero’s welcome.
Mr Lopez was a member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, which claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in the US in a campiagn for independence for the Caribbean island.
