Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police sharpshooters patrolled rooftops as 13 suspected members of the Macheteros, a Puerto Rican terrorist group, were brought to the U.S. District Court in Hartford last week on charges of robbing $7 million from a Connecticut Wells Fargo depot in 1983. The precaution was prompted by the violent history of the group. In Puerto Rico, the Macheteros (machete wielders) blew up nine aircraft in 1981, and authorities say they staged a 1979 attack on a U.S. Navy bus that killed two sailors...
...activist insists adamantly that protest is not the way to go. "People who organize protests have really good intentions, but they haven't seen that many results, at least not at Harvard," asserts Remigio Cruz '86, who spends several afternoons a week and lives summers in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Boston's South...
...activist insists adamantly that protest is not the way to go. "People who organize protests have really good intentions, but they haven't seen that many results, at least not at Harvard," asserts Remigio Cruz '86, who spends several afternoons a week and lives summers in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Boston's South...
...young Costa-Rican mother holds her first child with pride-before a simple house made grand through her own decorations. An aging Gaucho upon his horse pauses, surrounded by the Argentine plains, in a moment of quiet dignity. From these photos we see that the photographer genuinely cares, and viewing these pictures...
Ginandes managed to enter the private lives of people in small towns who were unaccustomed to outsiders. She recalls sharing an afternoon with an older Costa Rican woman. Ginandes had photographed her holding a colorful parrot to the delight of a small child. As they parted, the woman said, "I will carry you forever in my heart...