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New Puerto Rico Governor Appoints FBI Agent New Police Chief
10:33 am By Maegan La Mala · Justice| Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
24 Nov 2008
President-elect Obama isn’t the only one making questionable choices in his political appointments. Puerto Rico’s Governor-elect Luis Fortuño chose the current assistant director of the FBI in Puerto Rico, José Figueroa Sancha, to head the island’s police force, further blurring the line between P.R.’s ability to govern it’s internal affairs and the reality of it’s status as a U.S. colony.
Macheteros Identify FBI Agent Who Participated In Ojeda Rios Assasination and Issue Warning
8:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico · Comments Off
29 Oct 2008
The Boricua Popular Army aka los Macheteros have identified John Roeper as an FBI agent who participated in the assassination of Puerto Rican independence fighter Filiberto Ojeda Rios in 2005. From their statement:
“We in the EPB–The Macheteros, in turn, have been able to identify several of the mercenaries who participated in the assassination of our commander. Our intelligence division has been able to do so. Today we publish the name of John Roeper. In the next communiqués, we will report to the nation about other agents.
El Grito (de Lares) En Mi Boca
1:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico| history · 1 Comment
23 Sep 2008Today marks three years since Rican liberation leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios was murdered by the FBI. It was no coincidence that the FBI chose September 23 as the date of his execution. September 23, 1868 the date that Don Emeterio Betances issued the Grito de Lares, the Independence of Puerto Rico.
Today, activists y amantes de la libertad, call for a day of solidarity with Puerto Rico, a colony hidden behind the name of a commonwealth. A country and a people that are pandered to for votes when needed by presidential wannabes when the island’s very status doesn’t allow for the U.S. citizens by birth to vote for the person under whose laws they must live.
Request for the UN to Look at Filiberto Ojeda Rios FBI Death
9:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
30 Jun 2008
A Bar Association (it is not clear if this is the Puerto Rican Bar Association) requested that the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Executions, Australian Philip Alston, investigate the United States for the death of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos at the hands of agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).
Included in the 30 page request, is a request to interview 31 people including governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá and Luis Fraticelli, director of the FBI in Puerto Rico.
The next step after filing the complaint is for Alston to communicate with the Government of the United States. Once the federal government approves Alston coming to Puerto Rico, the U.N. Rapporteur will visit the Island for a field investigation related to the death of Ojeda Ríos on September 23, 2005.
If the U.S. does not approve Alston’s visit, the Rapporteur will note the denial in his report and will denounce the U.S. position on an international level, according to Romany as well as attorneys Ricardo Alfonso García and Fermín Arraiza Navas, members of the third Bar Association commission to intervene in this case.
The attorneys posit that the case of Ojeda Ríos is not the only extrajudicial execution on the Island, mentioning as an example the death of Santiago Mari Pesquera, son of independentista leader Juan Mari Brás.
Do people really expect the U.S. to be held responsible to any international law?
Via / El Nuevo Dia
Supreme Court : Filiberto Files Not Open to Puerto Rico
10:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
3 Apr 2008
Just another reminder of the powerlessness of the current status of Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico sued the FBI over access to files from the shooting death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios and the subsequent pepper spraying of Rican journalists.
A U.S. District Court judge threw out Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, saying the commonwealth’s sovereign authority to enforce its criminal laws did not provide grounds for obtaining the FBI material.
The judge also ruled that the FBI’s refusal to comply with the commonwealth’s subpoenas was neither arbitrary nor capricious.
A federal appeals court ruled that disclosing information on the Ojeda raid “would reveal how the FBI goes about capturing a fugitive who is believed to be dangerous.”
The appeals court added that disclosing the names of FBI agents would jeopardize the agents’ ability to conduct covert operations and expose them to harassment.
The case is Puerto Rico v. U.S., 07-685
El Grito de Lares is Heard in NYC
12:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New York City| Politics| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
24 Sep 2007
The President of Iran isn’t the only one causing trouble at the UN. Yesterday Ricans and many others marched in solidarity with the Rican community to honor el Grito de Lares, September 23rd 1868, traditionally celebrated and commemorated as the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule in a revolt. In 2005 the FBI took advantage of that date by killing Filiberto Ojeda Rios. The event was also an opportunity to bring attention to the continued colonial status of the island of Puerto Rico.
Image Via / Virtual Boricua
On Island and Off Boricuas Remember Filiberto and Demand Indepedence
11:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events| New York City| Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
25 Sep 2006
Thousands marched in Puerto Rico and hundreds marched in New York City on Saturday, September 23rd to remember and denounce the FBI killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, who died a year ago to the date. The date also marked the 168th anniversary of El Grito de Lares when Puerto Ricans rebelled to demand independence from Spain in 1868. While hundreds in NYC marched from Times Square to the United Nations singing, dancing and chanting “La lucha sigue, Filiberto Vive” and “Todo boricua machetero”, in Lares, Puerto Rico the chants and message were the same.
“These terrorists, that Yankee empire that wants to instill fear in us, they should know better. We won’t surrender,” Rosa Meneses, president of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, told supporters massed in Revolution Plaza, in the western mountain town of Lares.
Remembering El Grito de Lares and Filiberto
12:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events| New York City| Puerto Rico| history · 1 Comment
22 Sep 2006
September 23rd was celebrated since 1868 by many Puerto Ricans as el Grito de Lares, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule and declared Puerto Rico a free nation in charge of its own destiny. Last year the FBI decided to use this date against the very people that celebrated that date by killing Filiberto Ojeda Rios, leader of the Puerto Rican People’s Army, Los Macheteros.
Tomorrow there will be a march and rally to commemorate the original grito and to form a united grito in memory of Filiberto and to demand that Puerto Rico and its people be in charge of their island, once and for all.
The march and rally will be tomorrow at 1 pm in Times Square where the group will proceed to the United Nations.
Via / September 23.org
Image Via / BBC News
FBI Off the Hook for Killing of Rican Nationalist
11:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
23 Aug 2006
Surprise surprise. Last week the Federal Department of Justice determined that FBI acted appropriately when they shot and killed Puerto Rican nationalist leader and Machetero Filiberto Ojeda Rios last September 23. The only criticism the Feds made was that there were some procedural issues in the shooting, including delayed communications between FBI headquarters and agents at the scene. According to CNN the report said:
“Although our report did not find that the FBI violated the deadly force policy or intentionally allowed Ojeda to die, we did find deficiencies in the FBI’s conduct of the arrest operation,” the report said. FBI decisions suffered from inadequate consideration of alternative options and inadequate preparation for foreseeable scenarios.”
Believing in Rican Independence via Independent Film
8:55 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Movies| Puerto Rico · 2 Comments
16 Mar 2006
I Believe in America is an independent film produced for less than $700,000 that the Puerto Rican Film Commission wouldn’t allow to be filmed on la isla del encanto. Who’s afraid of an indie film? Apparently many people especially when that film deals with the independence of Puerto Rico and those that struggle for it like the Macheteros. Writer/Director Michael J. Narvaez adapted his Off-Broadway play, A Doctor’s Call into the film, based on his own family history, which follows three generations of a Puerto Rican family who, unknown to one another, are all involved in the pro-independence Macheteros. Narvaez blames the current political climate for the roadblocks he’s encountered in producing the film that is still without a distributor.
“What you find when you do the research is that as far as families, Puerto Rican families, you‘re afraid to say you‘re for independence,” he said. “You were afraid before 9/11. After 9/11, now you‘re really spooked.”
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