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Ojeda Ríos, Filiberto

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Five Years Later: Remembering Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos

by Elma Beatriz Rosado, Juan A. Ocasio Rivera

13 May 2010

Organized political movements advocating independence of Puerto Rico have existed since the mid-19th century. This month their eyes will be riveted on Washington as the U.S. Congress reviews legislation proposing a change in the island’s status. This year marks the anniversary of the (...)

Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder

by Bill Van Auken

Caracas (Venezuela) | 7 April 2006

The government of Puerto Rico went to federal
court last week, accusing the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the US Justice Department of
obstructing justice by stonewalling a local
investigation of the FBI’s killing of a leading
figure in the island’s independence movement (...)