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FBI Arrests Puerto Rican Independence Activist

HeadlineFeb 11, 2008

And in Puerto Rico, FBI agents have arrested Puerto Rican
independence activist Avelino Gonzalez Claudio. The FBI accused him of being a member of the militant independence group Los Macheteros and of being involved in a $7 million bank heist in Connecticut in 1983. In 2005, FBI agents shot dead the leader of Los Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Rios.

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