The World - News from June 28, 1988

Convicted Puerto Rican terrorist William Morales, 37, under sentence in the United States on weapons and explosives charges, was flown to Cuba after his release from prison in Mexico last week, officials announced in Mexico City. Washington was “outraged and surprised” by the development, the American Embassy said. Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda had earlier rejected Washington’s request for Morales’ extradition, saying that he was a “political fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico.” Morales had escaped from a prison ward in New York City’s Bellevue Hospital in 1979 and fled to Mexico, where he was imprisoned in 1983 in the killing of a police officer.