Word: rican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Puerto Rican terrorists kill two U.S. sailors
Credit for the savage attack, the worst outbreak of political violence in Puerto Rico in two decades, was claimed by three terrorist groups that favor Puerto Rico's independence from the U.S.: the Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution, the Boricua Popular Army, and the Armed Forces of Popular Resistance. "We are not playing at war," they declared in a note left in a telephone booth. "We are prepared to take this struggle to its ultimate consequences." The murders, they said, were in retaliation for a police ambush that killed two young leftists in July...
Guevara offered three solutions "The army and the people must let each other alone, as they have done in Venezuela; Bolivia must re-educate the military establishment--although in reality this is too costly; or we will have to take the Costa Rican alternative, and have no army...
Puerto Rico must never become a part of the United States, Ruben Berrios, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, said yesterday to an audience of 100 people at the Science Center...
Berrios said the U.S. Congress controls the Puerto Rican minimum wage and labor laws and added "They even tell us what kind of sausages we can eat. That's a colony--the U.S. commands everything in Puerto Rico...