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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos - Wikipedia

Biography

Ojeda Ríos was born April 26, 1933 in Naguabo, Puerto Rico. An amateur musician, he played trumpet and guitar.

In 1961, he moved his family from Puerto Rico to Cuba and was recruited into the General Intelligence Directorate, the Cuban intelligence service. A year later he returned to Puerto Rico, allegedly to spy on the United States military.

In 1967 he founded and led the very first of Puerto Rico's new militant political groups, the Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement (MIRA). The organization was disbanded by police in the early 1970s and Ríos was arrested. He subsequently skipped bail and moved to New York, organizing the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) with former MIRA members as a membership base.

In 1976, Ojeda Ríos renamed the FALN to the Boricua Popular Army —or Ejército Popular Boricua in Spanish—also known as Los Macheteros ("The Machete Wielders").

Los Macheteros killed a Puerto Rican policeman, shot 15 unarmed US Navy personnel in two attacks (killing 3 and wounding 12), and bombed several US government facilities.

On September 12, 1983, Los Macheteros stole approximately $7 million from a Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut. The money obtained from this operation was allegedly used to help fund the Puerto Rican independence movement, although in reality the majority of the funds were apparently sent to Cuba.

In 1985, 19 members of Los Macheteros were indicted for offenses associated with the Wells Fargo heist. When Federal authorities attempted to arrest Ojeda Rios, he fired on them and wounded an FBI agent. Ojeda Rios was released on bond after his attorneys claimed he had been denied a speedy trial, although the delay in bringing him to trial was largely the result of defense motions. Ojeda Rios cut off the electronic monitoring device that had been placed on his ankle as a condition of his release, and became a fugitive. Fourteen were convicted after trial; one was acquitted. Charges against another were dismissed. Three, including Ojeda Ríos and Victor Manuel Gerena, were able to elude authorities.

In July of 1992, Ojeda Ríos was sentenced in absentia to 55 years in prison and fined $600,000 for his role in the Wells Fargo heist.

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