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FBI let Puerto Rican independence fighter bleed to death
by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 27 September 20054 comments
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The leader of the underground Puerto Rican People’s Army (EPB-Macheteros), Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, bled to death - virtually killed - due to lack of medical attention after being hit by a bullet in his right clavicle, it was confirmed today in this capital.
FBI let Puerto Rican independence fighter bleed to death
Dr. Héctor Pesquera told Prensa Latina that "the FBI let him bleed to death," after being shot by a sniper brought in from the United States.
Pesquera, spokesperson for the Hostosiano National Independence Movement (MINH), took part in the autopsy last night in the capital’s Forensic Science Institute, during which it was confirmed that the body of the EPB-Macheteros leader only revealed one bullet wound.
Pesquera assured PL that evidently, the FBI tactic was not to intervene so that "Comandante Ojeda Ríos would bleed to death through lack of medical attention."
"The bullet penetrated the top part of the right clavicle, crossed his lung and exited from his back, where it lodged in the bullet-proof vest that he was wearing," stated the doctor.
The death of Ojeda Ríos happened last Friday in the western municipality of Hormigueros, after he was surrounded by a contingent of 300-plus agents, including 20 snipers brought in from Virginia (United States).
The 72-year-old leader, who used a pacemaker, was in Hormigueros to celebrate the Grito de Lares, when the independence movement recalls the proclamation of the first Republic of Puerto Rico on September 23, 1868.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/septiembre/lun26/40fbi.html
Forum posts
28 September 2005, 08:55
Independence fighter? Who is he kidding? Some years ago, the US asked the Puerto Ricans to take a vote on whether they wanted to remain a possession of the US or to become an independent country. Guess what? They voted to remain a possession. The Puerto Ricans don’t have to fight for independence, they could have had it years ago.
30 September 2005, 03:45
ojeda is a hero butt monkey bush bitch and his FBI goons most definitely killed this man.
4 October 2005, 16:19
he was always an anti American machine...death choose well..I think
5 October 2005, 01:16
Good bye and good riddance....independence fighter MY ass! Another loser off of the US dole..Puerto Rico is the United States’ biggest welfare state in spite of it being a commonwealth by the way, PR has a vote to become a state and repeatedly votes not to. Why..you ask. Why become a state when you have all the "bennies" without being a state...buy a clue United States haters and get a life!!!