NEW YORK — More sponsors are dropping out of a New York City parade that is honoring a Puerto Rican nationalist who served decades in prison for his involvement in a group that claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings.

Coca-Cola, AT&T, and JetBlue became the latest sponsors to skip the June 11 Puerto Rican Day parade along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. New York has the largest Puerto Rican community off the island. Goya Foods already dropped out but said it was a business decision.

Oscar Lopez Rivera spent more than 35 years in prison before his sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama.

He was a member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN, which claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings around the United States and Puerto Rico in the 1970s and 1980s, including a blast that killed four people at New York’s historic Fraunces Tavern in 1975.

Hispanic societies in the fire and police departments will not send delegations this year, and the police commissioner said he wouldn’t march. Law enforcement officers were among those injured in the FALN blasts.

Parade organizers stand by their decision to honor Lopez Rivera as a national hero.

Supporters rallied around the organizers at a news conference Monday.

The 74-year-old Lopez Rivera has thousands of supporters who see him as a political prisoner, jailed for seeking independence for Puerto Rico, a US territory. Lopez Rivera wasn’t convicted in any of the bombings.

Associated Press