FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure

[RBHam]

FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure
By Bill Van Auken
27 September 2005

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/puer-s27.shtml

The fatal September 23 shooting of Puerto Rican nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios represents an act of state terror and cold-blooded murder by the US government. It is one more proof that in the name of a “global war on terrorism,” Washington has arrogated to itself the right to conduct political assassinations and act as judge, jury and executioner against opponents of US policies and interests.

Aged 72, Ojeda Rios was the leader of the Boricua Popular Army, also known as the Macheteros, a group that advocated independence for Puerto Rico. He was wanted on charges that he had participated in the planning of a 1983 Wells Fargo armored car robbery in Hartford, Connecticut, in which $7.1 million was taken. A fugitive for 15 years since fleeing house arrest in 1990, he was sentenced in absentia to 55 years in jail.

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Testimony from his wife and a neighbor, as well as the results of an autopsy, exposed as lies the FBI’s version of events. US authorities had claimed that federal agents had come to arrest Ojeda Rios, opening fire only after he had fired on them.

In a press conference Monday, however, the nationalist leader’s wife, Elma Beatriz Rosado Barbosa, testified, “On Friday, September 23, in the afternoon hours, our house was surrounded. Armed men penetrated our property and took our house by assault, hitting it in a brutal and terrible manner, firing with heavy weapons against the front wall of our residence.”

Hector Reyes, whose house is approximately 300 feet from that of Ojeda Rios, confirmed this account, saying that the US assault team began firing on the house as soon as the helicopters arrived on the scene. “The first shots were very powerful, not from a little revolver like they say he had,” said Reyes.

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[Jim Sagle]

1. Closing graf:

The assassination of Ojeda is a case of Washington deploying a death squad on what it claims as its own territory. This brutal killing serves as a warning of the methods the US government is prepared to use to suppress political opposition within the US itself.

Is THIS why DC Democrats cave? Because they've been threatened with death, or worse?

[melody]

5. The Bush crime family has been killing opponents for years

All the royals do this sort of thing...they're no different.

This is just another notch on the gun handle.

[Democrats_win]

2. Its Ruby Ridge all over again. You can't trust the bushes.

[RethugAssKicker]

3. What gives them the right to

go to another country and arrest its citizens?..... Looks like this was planned. I lived in Hartford,Ct. when that robbery occurred. Made big news back then. That was so long ago. - Guess FBI had to use some excuse for its real intentions!

[Dez]

4. They arrested Marc Emery in Canada

and he faces extradition to the states for selling pot seeds on the Net. The DEA say he is Canada's #1 Drug Kingpin! He has never sold pot, only seeds, but the DEA say he's the #1 threat. It's all politics, always. They want him in prison for 10 years to life! If he's sent down here, he'll never see Canada again. This is an attach on Canada's sovereignties.. and must not be allowed to happen.