Carlos Lugo Lorenzo, a 23 Puerto Rican college student at the University of Puerto Rico, assigned to the Engineering Battalion in Aguadilla is the latest person to publicly declare himself a conscientious objector and refuse to go to Iraq if he were to be called. He made the announcement during a rally held in front of an Army Recruitment Center in Rio Piedras held by the group Mothers Against the War. Lugo Lorenzo announced:

Yo, Carlos Enrique Lugo Lorenzo, miembro de la Guardia Nacional de los Estados Unidos en Puerto Rico, establecido en la Alpha 130th de la compañía del Batallón de Ingeniería en Aguadilla, me niego rotundamente a servir en las filas del ejército estadounidense en caso de ser activado, me declaro objetor por conciencia.

Carlos said the reasons the United States gave for the invasion of Iraq were a “farce” and were merely “justifications to take advantage of the natural resources Iraq has”.

Via / El Diaro/LA PRENSA