Filiberto Ojeda Rios

 

 

Age: 72

 

Summary: Puerto Rican nationalist leader of Los Macheteros, a minority political group that fights for the independence of Puerto Rico and against U.S. colonial rule, who was wanted in the 1983 robbery of a Connecticut armored truck depot to finance his political movement.

 

 

Cause of Death: Shot and killed in a shootout with FBI agents

 

Born: April 26, 1933

 

Died: September 23, 2005

 

Location: Hormigueros, Puerto Rico