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DR. MICHAEL GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ Michael González Cruz was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in 1972. He studied sociology and political science in the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. He received his PhD in sociology from Binghamton University in 2005. He was served as a professor/lecturer/instructor/teacher for the Department of Puerto Rican and Latin American Studies in John Jay College and Hostos Community College in New York City. He’s the autor of “Nacionalismo Revolucionario Puertorriqueño: La lucha armada, presos políticos y los intelectuales” [“Puerto Rican Revolutionary Nationalism: Armed Struggle, Political Prisoners and Intellectuals] published by Editorial Isla Negra, San Juan, P.R., in 2006 and 2007. His book was also published by Editorial La rana y el perro, and Venezuela’s Ministry of Popular Power for the Culture in Caracas (2008). Currently, he’s a Tenured Professor in the Department of Social Sciences in the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez (UPRM). He served as the director of the Center of Applied Investigations in the Social Sciences (CISA) at the UPRM (2008-2010). Since 2008, he collaborates with the Center of Documentation of Armed Movements (cedema.org). He continues investigating political violence, social movements, Latin America and the Caribbean. As a student (1990-94), he joined the Pro-Independence University Federation (FUPI in Spanish) and was a founding member of La Nueva Escuela (The New School) (2006-2010). He served as a pro-independence spokesperson for Boricua Ahora Es, an organization dedicated to the decolonization of Puerto Rico’s plebiscite on its political status, where 54.0% of voters expressed themselves against maintaining the current political status. Recently, he presided over Marchemos (Let Us March), a political organization representing Puerto Rican independence in the 2017 plebiscite. His last publications are: “Puerto Rico On the Road to Self-Determination.” (2012). North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), 45(4), New York. A plena voz: Nuestra resistencia 2005-2010. (2011). San Juan: Editorial Trastalleres. Retrieved from http://www.cedema.org/uploads/A_Plena_Voz.pdf. 2008 Puerto Rican Social Movements in Real World Latin America. Dollars and Sense, Boston “Puerto Rican Revolutionary Nationalism: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos and the Macheteros.” (2008). Latin American Perspectives, Issue 163, vol. 35, no. 6, November 2008, pp. 151-165.