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To: MestaMachine
September 26, 2005

Filiberto Ojeda Rios was a young trumpet player in Chicago when he was involved in the efforts of the revolutionary Cuba intelligence in that city to promote independent sentiment in that city, and after that, he came back to Puerto Rico and founded what was known as the Ejercito Popular Boricua Macheteros, the clandestine sector of the nationalist movement in Puerto Rico that was responsible, as you know, for several successful attacks, including the blowing up of several airplanes in the military base in San Juan for $45 million, and later for the assault of a truck, a brinks truck in Hartford, Connecticut, also successful, again, in the course of independence.

He was tried for those events in a federal court in Puerto Rico, and he was absolved unanimously by a Puerto Rican jury.

1,681 posted on 04/29/2010 7:06:36 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Gubmintfood. Somewhere in the world, a ‘rat is starvin’)
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To: MestaMachine

Rios was killed by the FBI in 2005.


1,682 posted on 04/29/2010 7:08:22 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Gubmintfood. Somewhere in the world, a ‘rat is starvin’)
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