National Boricua Human Rights Network

In the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico, we have suffered mistreatment and unending abuse. It is the truth. But it is also true that we have had triumphs which we are proud of, because we have managed to maintain our identity, our culture, and above all, our dignity.

Michael Reyes’ newest poetical audio work, Blood Dries Black, commemorates the 2005 assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, clandestine leader of Los Macheteros, by the FBI in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico (Ojeda Ríos bled to death). Reyes relates this horrible event to other acts of violence and devastation in Latin America by the United States, painting a [...]

There are many laments, atrocious memories, pain in excess. But no one in this country can undo what was lived that day. As with Río Piedras and Ponce, Maravilla and Vieques, the 23rd of September will guide our steps…

The Puerto Rico chapter of the American Association of Jurists will present to the United Nations (U.N.) in June a complaint against the Government of the United States for what they understand to be the execution of Machetero leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Tuesday May 27, 2008 Associated Press Read original article. The Boricua Popular Army The Macheteros warned today that the FBI is preparing for arrests, kidnappings and even acts to “provoke the death” of independentistas and people’s activists. In a communiqué mailed to the Associated Press, The Macheteros indicated that the supposed “great onslaught of the [...]

The archbishop of San Juan, Roberto González Nieves, confirmed to EL VOCERO that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents interviewed him with respect to two visits that the religious leader had with the president of the Boricua Popular Army Los Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos,

Attorney General Roberto Sánchez Ramos revealed today that scientific evidence compiled by the Institute of Forensic Sciences in the death of Machetero leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos shows that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent who fired the fatal shot lied when he justified his act.

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