Filiberto Ojeda Ríos

Ojeda Ríos was born April 26, 1933 in Naguabo, Puerto Rico.
In 1961, he moved his family from Puerto Rico to Cuba and was recruited into the General Intelligence Directorate, the Cuban intelligence service. A year later he returned to Puerto Rico, allegedly to spy on the United States military.
In 1967 he founded and led the very first of Puerto Rico's new militant political groups, the Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement (Movimiento Armado Revolucionario Indepentista) (MIRA). The organization was disbanded by police in the early 1970s and Ríos was arrested. He subsequently skipped bail and moved to New York, organizing the Armed Forces of National Liberation (Fuerzas Armadas de la Liberación Nacional) (FALN) with former MIRA members as a membership base.
In 1976, Ojeda Ríos founded the Boricua Popular Army (Ejercito Popular Boricua), also known as Los Macheteros (The Machete Wielders), so named because sugar cane stalks were historically cut at harvest time by machete-wielding farm workers.
The morning of the day after the shots were fired, federal agents once again approached the home. They found Filiberto Ojeda Ríos dead. The autopsy revealed a bullet had entered Ojeda's body below the right clavicle and exited through his lower back. The bullet lacerated one of his lungs but did not damage any arteries or major organs. The forensic investigators and his doctor, Héctor Pesquera, speculated that this was not the type of wound that would have killed Ojeda immediately. The evidence suggests, and the autopsy concluded, that he bled to death, and the nature of the wounds suggested the shots may have been fired by a sniper. At the time of death, Ojeda was wearing a bulletproof vest, and was dressed in camouflaged pants and hat.
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Filiberto Ojeda nació el 26 de abril de 1933 en Naguabo, Puerto Rico. En 1961 se muda junto a su familia a la isla de Cuba donde se une al Directorio General de Inteligencia-el servicio de inteligencia y espionaje cubano.
En 1967 funda y dirige el Movimiento Independentista Revolucionario Armado. En 1977, el nombre del FALN es cambiado al de Ejército Popular Boricua -- mejor conocidos como "Los Macheteros".
El 23 de septiembre de 2005, agentes federales rodearon su residencia en Hormigueros. Durante un intento por capturarlo hubo intercambio de disparos, alegadamente comenzados por Ojeda, en el cual un agente federal resultó herido de gravedad y Ojeda recibió un disparo con entrada un poco más abajo de la clavícula derecha y con salida en la espalda media. Según el FBI, luego de que cesara el tiroteo, los agentes decidieron no volver a acercarse a la casa hasta que llegaran refuerzos con entrenamiento especial porque temían que Ojeda tuviera explosivos y los usara si se trataban de acercar nuevamenbte. Los refuerzos mencionados llegaron al otro día, y al hacer un acercamiento a la residencia, encontraron a Ojeda Rios muerto. Según la investigación forense y una autopsia independiente, Ojeda murió desangrado.