Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
A Puerto Rican nationalist leader wanted for a 1983 robbery was killed last week in a shootout with FBI agents. Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 72, had disappeared in 1990, two years before being convicted in absentia for stealing $7.2 million from a Wells Fargo armored truck depot in Connecticut. The crime was considered an act of domestic terrorism because the money was used to finance Los Macheteros, or the Cane Cutters, a militant group pushing for Puerto Rican independence. The FBI tracked Ojeda to a mountain farmhouse in western Puerto Rico. The shootout began, the FBI said, when agents surrounded the house, and Ojeda shot one of them in the stomach.
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