#Filiberto Ojeda

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Founded in the 1970s, Los Macheteros (the Cane Cutters) is an insurgent organization that campaigns for, and supports, the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States. It was led primarily by Filiberto Ojeda Rios, until he was assassinated by the FBI in 2005. His killing was deemed an "illegal killing" by Puerto Rico's Civil Rights Commission after a seven year investigation.

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Boriken Liberation Front Commemorates the Anniversary of El Grito de Lares

By the Borikén Liberation Front CHICAGO, IL – This past September 23, 2024, the Borikén Liberation Front (BLF) hosted a speak-out and rally in Humboldt Park to commemorate the anniversary of El Grito de Lares and the martyrdom of revolutionary Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Members, allies, friends, and neighbors gathered in the heart of Chicago���s Puerto Rican community to honor the spirit of the…

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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos …. “✊🏽 ‘Killed by the Empire’s FBI’ ✊🏽 …. “!!

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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos …. “✊🏽 ‘Killed by the Empire’s FBI’ ✊🏽 …. “!!

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Recuerdos de una linda tarde.

Una vez iba a trepar una montaña por el lado este de la isla, que es mi zona preferida, y de camino me encuentro algo interesante, inesperado y fuera de lugar, en el mejor sentido de la palabra posible. Voy cruzando el municipio de Naguabo y al pasar por un cementerio veo que el viento está bailando con unas banderas de Lares que parecían nuevas. Nada hacía sentido. Banderas de la revolución en el centro de un pueblo montañoso que está localizado al otro lado de donde se gritó en algún momento del pasado. La curiosidad ganó. Necesitaba saber la razón de ser de estas preciosas banderas que llenaban mi mañana con esperanza. Al bajarme del carro y posarme frente a esa tumba no tomó tanto tiempo en darme cuenta de que estaba frente a uno de los pocos seres que se atrevió. Lamentablemente en nuestra isla no es facil militar, pues el complejo sistema colonial ha domesticado el fuego revolucionario de está nación en construcción. Pero este señor fue un volcán, no hubo forma de apagar sus llamas. Hasta el último momento se paró en alto para recibir su final. Todos recordamos esa desgraciada muerte que solo ilustró lo sucios que están dispuesto a jugar los federales. Un 23 de septiembre en Lares asesinan a este prócer, pero cometieron un error. Creían que sin él la lucha iba a acabar, olvidaron que las ideas son mucho más que los hombres. Las ideas tienen el potencial de derrumbar un imperio de mentiras, al igual que de construir uno. Filiberto nos dejó una chispa con la que nosotros debemos continuar iluminando el camino hacia la victoria. Y así lo haremos. En sus palabras, pa' lante, siempre pa' lante. La lucha sigue. Palabras inspiradoras que adornan la tumba de este ser que sigue vivo en nuestro corazón, donde la carne no puede llegar.

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all i’m sayin is

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"La verdad puede estar representada por minorías en un momento determinado. Y particularmente en el colonialismo, es así. Y el que está dispuesto a luchar por la libertad, se la merece." ⍆ Filiberto Ojeda Ríos ⍅

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PUERTO RICO - mural depicting Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, commander of the Boricua Popular Army which engaged in small-scale guerilla war since 1976 against the americans, who have forcibly held Puerto Rico as a colony since 1899

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By Berta Joubert-Ceci

Esta semana en Puerto Rico fueron arrestados dos alcaldes por el FBI, una entidad federal estadounidense. Y aunque ahora esté aparentemente combatiendo la corrupción, no nos olvidemos de que esta es la misma agencia que en el 2005 trajo a PR cientos de agentes para asesinar, dejándolo desangrar, al patriota machetero Filiberto Ojeda Ríos.

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Don Pedro Albizu Campos & Comandante Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. If you know you know. Knowledge is power. ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! Sovereignty Now! . . . . . #cottetattoo #tattooportrait #blackandgrey #puertoricolibre #oldestcolony #sovereigntynow #elquesabesabe #staysafe (at Borikén) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiqhWusLBoK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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CLANDESTINE FILIBERTO #art by @vgbnd • Filiberto Ojeda Rios was a Puerto Rican revolutionary, a man who devoted his life to the freedom of Puerto Rico from SU imperialism... He would have been 88 today if the FBI hadn't assassinated him in his home on September 23rd of 2005... September 23rd is a significant date in Puerto Rican history. In 1868 in the mountain town of Lares there was an uprising against Spanish colonial rule that is known as El Grito De Lares (the Cry Of Lares) that ultimately failed but led to the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico... That day is commemorated every year in Puerto Rico and throughout the diaspora... • On September 23rd, 1990, while on bail, Filiberto cut the electronic tag on his ankle and disappeared... He would often mock the FBI, and US imperialism in general by giving radio interviews, writing articles in newspapers and even doing television interviews while living clandestinely living in Puerto Rico... Filiberto would often note that the island nation of Puerto Rico is only 35 miles wide and 100 miles long - but the powers of US imperialism couldn't find him... The FBI did eventually find Filiberto but only because someone saw Filiberto and told the FBI where he was... • Every year Filiberto would send an audio message to be played on September 23rd at the annual commemoration of El Grito De Lares... While that audio message played, the FBI surrounded Filiberto's home and began a gunfight... Filiberto was shot in his clavicle from a helicopter by an FBI sniper and left to bleed to death... • @dylciapagan a former US-held Puerto Rican political prisoner of war who served 20 years fighting for Puerto Rico's freedom said that the FBI's assassination of Filiberto was an attempt to assassinate the spirit of the Puerto Rican people's desire for freedom... • #FreePuertoRico #FilibertoPresente #FilibertoVive #Machetero #EPB #FALN #filmmaking #guerrillafilmmaking #AVT #AudioVisualTerrorism (at Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/COIrneXBvD7/?igshid=jioq2wemsmqw

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Financing a Free Puerto Rico: The Great Wells Fargo Heist of 1983

By Nancy Finlay

On September 12, 1983, a Wells Fargo employee tied up and attempted to drug two co-workers at the Wells Fargo depot at 21 Culbro Drive in West Hartford, Connecticut. He then loaded over $7 million into a rented car parked in the loading dock and drove away. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery in American history.

At first authorities assumed that Victor Gerena, the young Wells Fargo guard who took the money, acted alone, and some local residents hailed him as a Robin Hood-styled hero. Eventually, however, it became clear that this was not the act of a single individual. Gerena was a recruit of Juan Segarra Palmer, one of the leaders of a group of Puerto Rican independence fighters called Los Macheteros.

Planning the Great Wells Fargo Heist

“Folk Hero Emerges in Heist” is the title of a September 16, 1983, Hartford Courant news article.

Segarra Palmer, a graduate of Philips Academy and Harvard University, was living in Puerto Rico when he planned the heist. He contacted Gerena at a pay phone in Arthur’s Drug Store in the Asylum Hill area of Hartford. Later he came to Hartford to rehearse the robbery, the delivery of the stolen money, and Gerena’s escape. Brilliantly planned and executed, the robbery came off without a hitch, except that the drug intended to knock out Gerena’s co-workers failed to have the desired effect, and both men remained conscious throughout the robbery.

Segarra Palmer claimed that the theft was a political act and that the he used the money to advance the cause of Puerto Rican independence. Few people in West Hartford had heard of Los Macheteros and most were unaware that a vocal segment of the Puerto Rican population had been actively seeking independence ever since the United States acquired Puerto Rico in 1898, following the Spanish-American War. The robbery took place on September 12 because that was the birth date of Pedro Albizu Campos, one of the most determined Puerto Rican nationalists of the early 20th century.

Los Macheteros

Founded in the 1970s, Los Macheteros drew inspiration from Albizu, who believed that the people of a colonized country had the right to use violence in their struggle for independence. The name “Los Macheteros” means “the Cane Cutters”; sugar cane was once Puerto Rico’s most important agricultural product. During the 1970s and 1980s, Los Macheteros attacked the United States government, military, and corporate installations, chiefly in Puerto Rico. While many people regarded them as terrorists, others saw them as Puerto Rican patriots.

Filiberto Ojeda Rios displays a Puerto Rican flag as he left U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., in this May 20, 1988 file photo after making bail. Ojeda jumped bond two years later and was killed in Puerto Rico on Friday, Sept. 23, 2005 – © Associated Press photo

On August 30, 1985, in raids conducted all over Puerto Rico, FBI agents and federal marshals apprehended those suspected of being members of Los Macheteros. They eventually filed charges against 19 individuals. In 1988, nine men, including Juan Segarra Palmer, were brought to trial in the federal courthouse in Hartford despite their protests that their case should be tried by an international court. The numerous charges against them ranged from money laundering to conspiracy to overthrow the United States government in Puerto Rico.

The jury was drawn from all over Connecticut. One of the defendants, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, a leader of Los Macheteros, skipped bail because he believed he would not get a fair trial. A jury found the remaining defendants guilty. Segarra Palmer received fifty-five years in prison, to be served at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Many rights activists believed the defendants’ sentences excessive. For some, the prisoners symbolized unfair treatment of Puerto Ricans by the United States.

In 1999, shortly before leaving office, President Bill Clinton granted clemency to the Puerto Rican prisoners. Segarra Palmer initially refused to accept Clinton’s offer of clemency but eventually left prison in 2004. Ojeda Rios, the man who skipped bail, died in a shootout with the FBI in 2006. Victor Gerena, the man who actually took the money from the Wells Fargo depot, remains at large and is one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Authorities never recovered the stolen money.

Nancy Finlay grew up in Manchester, Connecticut. She has a BA from Smith College and an MFA and PhD from Princeton University. From 1998 to 2015, she was Curator of Graphics at the Connecticut Historical Society.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/financing-a-free-puerto-rico-the-great-wells-fargo-heist-of-1983/

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el 26 de abril de 1933 nace en Puerto Rico el revolucionario independentista Filiberto Ojeda Ríos