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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos

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Puerto Rican political activist (1933-2005)

United StatesActivistsLived 1933 to 2005 · aged 72
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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN).

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View of the front of the house, as it would have appeared to the FBI agents when they approached[17]View of the front of the house, as it would have appeared to the FBI agents when they approached[17]Puerto Rico Pro-Independence University Federation protesters of Ojeda Ríos' death in 2005Puerto Rico Pro-Independence University Federation protesters of Ojeda Ríos' death in 2005

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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN). In 1990, Ojeda Ríos became a fugitive of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), wanted for his role in the 1983 Águila Blanca heist, which netted more than US$7 million, as well as a bail bond default on September 23 of that year. On September 23, 2005, he was killed during an exchange of gunfire with FBI agents after they surrounded the house in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.

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United States
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Activist
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Lived 1933 to 2005 · aged 72
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