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  • Sen. Clinton cancels visit to Puerto Rico

    09/29/2005 3:05:02 PM PDT · by LurkedLongEnough · 35 replies · 1,123+ views
    Seattle P-I ^ | September 29, 2005 | STEVENSON JACOBS, AP
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rican police tightened security at federal buildings and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton canceled a visit to the island amid fears the killing of a Puerto Rican nationalist in an FBI shootout could lead to a resurgence of pro-independence violence. Police chief Pedro Toledo acknowledged the potential for unrest, saying the death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios had generated "rancor and rage." Ojeda Rios, 72, was shot to death Friday by FBI agents who came to arrest him at his farmhouse in southwestern Puerto Rico for the 1983 armed robbery of a Wells Fargo depot in...
  • A Terrorism Raid in Puerto Rico Makes Waves in New York City

    02/13/2006 12:43:40 PM PST · by neverdem · 59 replies · 1,987+ views
    NY Sun ^ | February 13, 2006 | DANIELA GERSON
    An FBI sweep launched in Puerto Rico to prevent a "domestic terrorist attack" is eliciting widespread outrage on the island - and as far away as New York City - with critics accusing the agency of trying to use terrorism as a guise to turn public opinion against Puerto Rico's independence movement. The Friday morning raid on the U.S. commonwealth, which targeted five private homes and one business, was launched to prevent attacks from the Boricua Popular Army, the FBI said. The special agent in charge of the San Juan Division of the FBI, Luis Fraticelli, said the searches were...