Posted on 09/24/2005 6:19:56 AM PDT by cloud8
This guy is no leader.
A punk is a punk is a thug.
He will now meet the ultimate judge and jury.
"Rebel"? KMA. Terrorist.
Didn't Hillary pardon him along with the other PR terrorists?
Now we know the answer to the age-old question: "How many Puerto Rican prosecutors does it take..."
This is a terrorist Clinton will be unable to pardon!
Loading the cash into a single-engined plane (IIRC, belonging to his father,) he took off in the dead of night and was never seen again. Speculation has always centered on Cuba as an ultimate destination. The "Macheteros" that figured in the above article were Victor's support-system, both in Hartford and in PR, and probably Cuba too.
I was wondering the same thing. cllinton pardoned the FALN terrorists. NYPost link. I don't know if there's a connection to Rios and the Macheteros.
Are these some of The A**HOLES that BeelzeBubba pardoned?
> Speculation has always centered on Cuba as an ultimate destination. The "Macheteros" that figured in the above article were Victor's support-system, both in Hartford and in PR, and probably Cuba too.
Then the violent element of the PR independence movement is/was linked to/financed by Castro?
Protest spinning? Spanish speakers, what say you? Macheteros = Cane Cutters or Machete Wielders (Machetes).
A small but COMMUNIST minority supports independence.
Who woulda thunk it?
Watch for the "US Out of Puerto Rico" signs during the anti-American demonstrations today in Washington. This guy is a hero to the Left.
THANX
> Who woulda thunk it?
What I'm thinking is a clintn-Cuba-PR connection. And now we've got to throw Fidel's buddy Hugo Chavez into the equation.
Unbeknownst to me, the game day happened to coincide with the celebration of the birthday of the founder of the independentista movement, so there had been speeches in the plaza, and the townspeople had apparently been whipped into a frenzy. I had become the symbol of something they intensely disliked.
The game was played to an overflow crowd, and suffice it to say there were NO American flags being displayed. The Hormigueros team had a six foot ten center, named Carlos Prieto, who later became a team-mate of mine in college, our tallest player was maybe six-five. I am six-four, normally a 2 guard, and I had to guard this dude. I had noticed in warm-ups that there was this muscular, tatooed, much-older than high-school looking fellow on their team, and you could tell he didn't have enough skill to be on a basketball team, and I wondered what on earth he was on their team for.
The ball was tipped up, and after a few trips up and down the court, I went up for a rebound and the goon nailed me square in the face with a viscious elbow. I lost a tooth then and there, and the game was stopped to patch me up. I went back in and played absolutely the worst game in my career, yes, I had been intimidated to the point of ineptitude. The crowd had been calling me names prior to the re-arrangement of my face, but it all stopped once "Paco" nailed me, I guess they felt sorry for me. I never went back to Hormigueros.
Wow. You tell that story like it happened yesterday, not 35 years ago.
I guess Hormigueros is still an independentista/Macheteros hotbed.
I am reminded of it every time I brush my teeth.
A town called Morovis was then, and I understand still is the center of the independista movement. It's in the middle of the island, in the mountains.
I found as many patriotic, pro Americans in Puerto Rico as I had in the states, the independentistas are socialists and have represented a minority for a long time, it's just that on that day they had all convened on Hormigueros, I guess.
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