House of Paine

PR Nationalist Filiberto Ojeda Rios killed by FBI

  Hormigueros  Puerto Rico :
september 23 :


"A fugitive  nationalist
   has died after a gunfight 
                with FBI agents 
                          at his farm/ hide out 
                                            here.."



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"      convicted 
     in absentia
  for the '83
robbery
  of 
 $7m from a welles fargo bank depot
            in   Connecticut
                  Ojeda Rios 
                had  been  operating
                  'underground'
                             since 1990"

"The US  GOVERNMENT
 considered
    the robbery
 an act of domestic
            terrorism "



"Ojeda Rios  
  was a leader 
             of 
the 'Macheteros'
       nationalist movement"


"it is not
yet clear how Ojeda Rios died..."


 " One FBI agent was
wounded in the gun battle"

"independence leader Juan Mari Bras 
         told AP:
 "I always said 
 that when they went to arrest him
 they would have to kill him 
 I am proud of his heroism 
                    and his valour." "


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" thousands  all around 
   'the commonwealth '
       are mobilizing
   to demonstrate against 
           Ojeda Rios' assassination' "

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note the fbi tried assassinating him
back in '85 
but he shot his way out

and got acuitted of charges
brought against him by the bureau
  by a jury in puerto rico
verdict 
  "self defense" 

 "he died a hero
           and 
   he will rise again
              as a greater hero "


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