FBI Assassinates Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios

Shades of Ruby Ridge and Waco? Democracynow.org has discussed this story over the past two days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filiberto_Ojeda_Rios

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On September 23, 2005, the same day as "Grito de Lares (refers to the revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico which occurred on September 23, 1868) members of the FBI surrounded a house in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico where Ojeda Ríos was believed to be hiding. Some shots were fired from inside and outside the house, wounding an FBI agent and fataly wounding Filiberto Ojeda Ríos but this information is yet unknown.

Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (April 26, 1933 – September 23, 2005) was the "Responsible General" of the Boricua Popular Army, or Ejército Popular Boricua – Los Macheteros, a clandestine paramilitary organization based on the island of Puerto Rico, with branches throughout the United States and other countries. Los Macheteros is a minority political group that campaigns for and supports the independence of Puerto Rico from what they characterize as an oppressive U.S. colonial rule that has lasted 107 years.

Ojeda Ríos was wanted by the FBI for his role in the 1983 Wells Fargo depot robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, as well as bond default in September 1990.

Ojeda Rios died, at the age of 72, during an FBI operation to arrest him on September 23, 2005. Although the details of the incident remain unclear, reports indicate that federal agents surrounded Ojeda's clandestine house in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, but were received with gunshots which hit three FBI Agents, critically injuring one. Alledgedly, Federal agents fired and killed Ojeda and arrested and injured his wife.

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