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  Boricua Popular Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Los Macheteros were organized in the 1970s by Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Juan Enrique Segarra Palmer and Orlando González Claudio.
In the 1990s Los Macheteros claimed responsibility on a bomb explosion that occurred in a small power station in the Puerto Rican metropolitan area.
According to both federal and international law, Los Macheteros are considered terrorists for the methods they have employed to further their agenda.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Los_Macheteros   (1191 words)

  
 macheteros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Los Macheteros were organized in the 1970s by Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Juan Enrique Segarra Palmer and Orlando Gonzalez Claudio.
Los Macheteros most infamous act was a Wells Fargo depot robbery of approximately $7 million in West Hartford, Connecticut (USA) in September 12, 1983.
As with all terrorist groups, Los Macheteros are considered by some as patriotic heroes or simply patriots, but according to Puerto Rican, American, and International law, they are considered as terrorists for the way they execute their acts.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Macheteros.html   (532 words)

  
 Boricua Popular Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Los Macheteros were organized in the 1970s by Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, and.
While some Puerto Ricans consider Los Macheteros to be terrorists and unpatriotic, there are many 'quiet' sympathizers who think of Los Macheteros as soldiers of the poor and working class people of the island.
The Macheteros claim (and many historians agree) that part of the reason for their formation and actions was to defend Puerto Rico's legal process and political evolution from US Government intervention.
www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Los_Macheteros   (983 words)

  
 Filiberto Ojeda Ríos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Los Macheteros is an ultra-minority political group that campaigns, supports, and promotes the independence of Puerto Rico through violent means from what they characterize as an oppressive U.S. colonial rule they claim has lasted 107 years.
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.
Elma Beatriz Rosado, Ojeda's widow, in her first public declarations after the death of the leader of the clandestine group the Macheteros, indicated the FBI arrived shooting at the residence where Ojeda Rios was hiding in a rural district of Hormigueros.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Filiberto_Ojeda_R%C3%ADos   (1499 words)

  
 [No title]
Consequently, the court of appeals concluded that the jury could not have understood "that it was to convict defendants of conspiracy on the basis of their membership in Los Macheteros." /3/ Id. at 7496.
2-7) that the district court erred in permitting the government to introduce evidence of his involvement in Los Macheteros, claiming that the admission of this evidence improperly expanded the scope of the conspiracy beyond the objectives charged in the indictment.
The evidence of petitioner's involvement in Los Macheteros' illegal activities was plainly relevant to show his knowing participation in the conspiracy to commit the offenses charged in the indictment.
www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1990/sg900027.txt   (857 words)

  
 Clinton Offer Includes Mastermind of 1983 Wells Fargo Robbery
The 16 convicted independence advocates are members of the FALN guerrilla group and Los Macheteros, radical organizations responsible for at least 130 bomb attacks on political and military targets in the mainland United States and in Puerto Rico from 1974 to 1983.
Los Macheteros killed two U.S. sailors in San Juan, attacked a busload of military members on another occasion and destroyed U.S. military aircraft in yet another attack.
When Filiberto Ojeda-Rios, who founded Los Macheteros, was arrested for his part in the Wells Fargo robbery, he fired on FBI agents, hitting one agent in the head and costing him the sight in one eye.
www.jonathanpollard.org /1999/081299a.htm   (1249 words)

  
 Eco Latino -- Editorials -- Freed Puerto Rican Nationalist Speaks Out -- June 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
All were members of an armed radical group called "Los Macheteros," or "the machete wielders." For more than a decade, they attacked U.S. interests in Puerto Rico hoping it would lead to an end of what they considered the illegal U.S. colonization of the island dating back to 1898.
A founding member of "Los Macheteros," Segarra Palmer was released early from a U.S. federal prison in Florida this year after serving 19 years of a 55-year sentence.
Rodriquez was the main witness in the case that led to the ultimate downfall of the Machetero movement: the Wells Fargo heist in 1983 of $7.2 million in Hartford, Conn., one of the most spectacular robberies in U.S. history.
www.ecolatino.com /en/stories/060104/edi_18e.shtml   (651 words)

  
 Puerto Ricans linked to spies for Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In September, President Clinton freed 11 jailed nationalists, members of Los Macheteros or the FALN, the Spanish acronym for the Armed Forces of National Liberation.
Los Macheteros, with the exception of the $7.1 million Wells Fargo robbery, attacked U.S. government targets in Puerto Rico.
None of the prisoners offered clemency were directly involved in violent acts, Clinton said, and he acted on human rights activists' arguments that the prisoners had paid their debt by serving an average 19 years in jail.
www.jonathanpollard.org /1999/110699.htm   (320 words)

  
 PUERTO RICO HERALD: CLEMENCY FOR TERRORISTS:Final Report of the Committee on Government Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Macheteros, a terrorist group whose goal is the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States, literally translates as "the machete wielders." The group generally carries out its terrorist activities within Puerto Rico, and the name bespeaks the violence for which they are known.
A Macheteros communiqué claiming credit for the attack indicated that it was in reprisal for the death of an independentista in a Florida prison.
According to a statement by the Macheteros, the attack was in retaliation for "environmental aggression," and was "only the beginning of what from now on will constitute a line of action in defense of our country." The Macheteros also took responsibility for the June 9, 1998, attacks on two branches of the Banco Popular.
www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/vol3n53/ComiteFinalReport-en.shtml   (17100 words)

  
 Filiberto Ojeda Ríos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (born in April 26, 1933) is the "Responsible General" of Boricua Popular Army, or Ejército Popular Boricua - Los Macheteros, a clandestine paramilitary organization based on the island of Puerto Rico, with cells throughout the United States and other countries.
Los Macheteros campaign for and support the independence of Puerto Rico from what they characterize as the United States colonial rule.
In 1985, 19 members of Los Macheteros were indicted for offenses associated with the robbery.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Filiberto-Ojeda-R%EDos.htm   (429 words)

  
 Los Macheteros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Los Macheteros is a revolutionary group that operates from Puerto Rico.
Clearly, unlike Ruben Berrios' PIP party movement, The Macheteros has an agenda of making Puerto Rico independent by means of violence.
January 2 of 1977, one day after Carlos Romero Barcelo, who looked for Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of the American Union, was sworn in as Puerto Rico's governor, two bombs were placed at a ROTC building in San Juan.
www.theezine.net /l/los-macheteros.html   (301 words)

  
 Report links Cuban Communist Intelligence agents with Clinton's Pardoned FALN Terrorist [Free Republic]
He handed it over to Los Macheteros, the violent Puerto Rican radicals hoping to finance the revolution that would win their island's independence.
Los Macheteros, with the exception of the $7.1 million Wells Fargo robbery in West Hartford in 1983, limited itself to a separate front, bombing and assassinating targets in Puerto Rico.
The FBI determined that the Macheteros were meeting principally with four senior officers of the Cuban diplomatic-intelligence establishment.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a382540cc7af3.htm   (4106 words)

  
 Armored Universe - The Armored Car Industry Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The government ultimately indicted 19 members of Los Macheteros, or the Cane Cutters, for participating in the robbery.
According to Wolf, Los Macheteros has a bloody history, including claims of responsibility for a series of bombings, murders and armed attacks against authorities in Puerto Rico and U.S. interests there.
Ojeda Rios, the alleged leader of Los Macheteros, was released on bail in 1988 after about three years in prison awaiting trial in Connecticut.
www.armoreduniverse.com /news.asp?id=889   (619 words)

  
 La Liga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Los peloteros nicaragüenses podrían formar parte de la Liga Profesional de Panamá, sin importar su estatus de profesionales o no, así lo dejó entrever el dirigente Enrique Fernández, propietario de los Tiburones de Panamá.
Fernández, miembro del cuerpo directivo de la Liga y propietario de uno de los cuatro equipos, dijo que en éste momento están negociando con un pelotero nica y que es muy probable que otros equipos muestren interés por los peloteros pinoleros.
Sobre los peloteros que jugarán en la Liga Profesional, Panamá utilizará a 16 nativos, entre profesionales y aficionados (los mejores) y 12 extranjeros, todos profesionales, preferiblemente de los Estados Unidos y Canadá.
www.ibw.com.ni /~beisnica/n_apanama.htm   (440 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Los Macheteros: The Wells Fargo Robbery and the Violent Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Los Macheteros (Machete-Wielders) are a group of revolutionaries who are fighting for Puerto Rican independence.
Using the case as his point of departure, psychologist-sociologist Fernandez traces the history of Puerto Rico (with emphasis on economic exploitation by the U.S.) and its various independence movements and their leaders.
Using the legendary robbery by Los Macheteros (The Machete Wielders) to the Wells Fargo in 1983 as an epicenter, Fernandez presents the story behind the scenes, and explains why Puerto Rico is "an island that handled ignorantly, could easily become America's Northern Ireland."
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0139500561?v=glance   (733 words)

  
 Report: Freed Puerto Rican nationalists linked to Cuba / CNN - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
The 11 nationalists were members of Los Macheteros, Spanish for "The Cane Cutters," and the FALN, the Spanish acronym for the Armed Forces of National Liberation.
The newspaper said that an FBI investigation of a 1983 Wells Fargo robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, that involved Los Macheteros turned up evidence of Cuba's support for the Puerto Rican independence movement.
According to the Courant, after the robbery, the FBI monitored conversations and meetings between Cuban intelligence agents and members of the Macheteros.
www.cubanet.org /CNews/y99/nov99/08e6.htm   (348 words)

  
 TresCaminos
Los que buscan hacer una república en esta Isla luchan contra lo imposible.
Lo que estoy seguro es que seguimos luchando porque sabemos que es lo correcto, sabemos que en algún día la pasará y seremos contentos.
Los boricuas (y otras personas del mundo entero) que están dando lo que pueden no tienen que sacar dinero de sus bolsillos para ayudarle a gente que nunca le han conocido, pero lo hacen.
trescaminos.blogspot.com   (4547 words)

  
 Periodico La Raza -- Noticias para Latinos en Chicago - Hispanic newspaper
Ponce - De acuerdo a McClintock, este tipo de medida tiene como única consecuencia castigar a los contribuyentes responsables, además de restarle credibilidad al gobierno en torno a la gestión de cobro de los impuestos.
Así lo expresó hoy durante un evento en el que unos varios ciudadanos le hicieron preguntas directamente al mandatario en un estudio de T....
San Jua- Los consumidores pagarán en los próximos días 30 centavos adicionales por el galón de gasolina, adelantó hoy Pablo Crespo, presidente de la Asociación de Detallistas de Gasolina.
www.laraza.com /channel.php?cha=53&PHPSESSID=d1ca2bd84ec59d8bd66164762c33ef1a   (4621 words)

  
 Puerto Rico: NMIP: Enlightenment apostles of terror
"Los Macheteros," founded by former MPI member Filiberto Ojeda Ríos in 1970, upon returning from a nine-year stay in Cuba where he worked with the terrorist Latin American Solidarity Organization (OLAS) and received military training.
Luis Colón Osorio, one of the founders and commanders of the Macheteros, under house arrest, received specialized training in explosives and weapons in East Germany, and then was discharged from the U.S. Army after having a nervous breakdown and for heroin addiction.
Known arms suppliers: Weapons for the Macheteros and the FALN come from the FBI or are gotten through robberies of military installations, or are bought on the fl market and paid for through bank robberies.
www.larouchepub.com /other/1995/2245_nmip.html   (1087 words)

  
 Gira Internacional Escuela de Música de San Ignacio de Moxos
Durante los siglos XVII y XVIII, antes de que la corona española expulsara a los jesuitas de América Latina por defender los derechos de los indígenas, la selva boliviana se hizo música y los violines se confundieron con el trino de los pájaros y los ruidos misteriosos del bosque.
Los jesuitas se valieron de la música como factor fundamental en la recreación del misterio, la magia de cada celebración.
De hecho, en algunos casos, se enriquecieron, dando como resultado un nuevo estilo que lo llaman Barroco Misional.La música nativa que antes de la evangelización servía para alabar a sus propias deidades o para celebraciones seculares, ahora cumplían otro fin, exaltar su fé al nuevo Dios.
www.embajadadebolivia.com.ar /gira_moxos_2005.htm   (708 words)

  
 Report: Freed nationalists had links to Cuban Intelligence [Free Republic]
have determined that the Cubans support and direct the Macheteros at a firsthand level,'' the FBI said in a confidential memo.
In addition to analyzing the FBI investigation of the 1983 armored car robbery, The Courant said it interviewed 50 sources, including former Cuban agents, FBI agents and congressional investigators.
The Weekly Standard also showed that concurrent to the WH effort to get these terrorists freed, Madelaine Albright was also lobbying hard for a waiver for a US visa for the Cuban intelligence officer that had been in charge of training and funding Los Macheteros and other groups.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3824afd04e81.htm   (710 words)

  
 Puerto Rico - Political Flags   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Los Macheteros (official name: Ejército Popular de Boricua (EPB)), known also as EPB Movimiento Popular Revolucionario, Machete Wielders and Popular Army of Boricua.
Current Goals: While the Macheteros are based in Puerto Rico, a bank robbery in the United States precipitated a severe blow to the terrorist group.
While the Macheteros escaped with the majority of the stolen money, enough evidence was gathered from the bank investigation to arrest several key Macheteros leaders.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/pr}.html   (4078 words)

  
 Bounty on Macheteros Reaches $1 Million [en] : CMI-PR
This increased reward comes as a message from Filiberto Ojeda Rios, the founder of Los Macheteros, was released in various locations, one of which was threw Puerto Rico’s Independent Media Center.
Or it may be that the FBI have picked up on some information that may point out that Los Macheteros are becoming active once again after the recent elections, still with no clear winner.
Within two years of the robbery, Los Macheteros took credit for rocket attacks on two federal buildings in San Juan.
indymediapr.org /print.php?id=5824   (633 words)

  
 Congressmen Send Letter to FBI Seeking Answers in Filiberto Ojeda Killing
Decisión del FBI de actuar agresivamente contra los independentistas en 1960
cambiará la forma en que los puertorriqueños perciben al gobierno estadounidense.
Los textos se complementan con gran variedad de mapas, gráficas y fotografías para hacer más motivador y atractivo el estudio de la historia de nuestro país.
www.preb.com /FBI/congfor5.htm   (1272 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The government contends that Berrios is a leader of Los Macheteros, a terrorist group seeking Puerto Rican independence.
The government contends the Wells Fargo heist was masterminded by Los Macheteros and carried out by a Wells Fargo security guard who has never been captured.
According to a pre-sentencing report by authorities, Berrios was the Macheteros payroll from September 1980 until May 1985, and was paid $500 a month.
ils.unc.edu /~viles/172i/users/big/docs/AP881101-0069   (275 words)

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