Word: rigau
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...Rigau said the two men, who were in favor of Puerto Rican independence from the U.S., were murdered by the Puerto Rican government because of their political beliefs...
Senator Marcos Rigau, chair of the judiciary committee investigating the 1978 incident, said the FBI covered up evidence that linked the Puerto Rican government to the assassinations of two Puerto Rican youths...
...case involves the shooting deaths of two young men. According to Rigau, an undercover government agent took the men to a mountain named "Cerro Maravilla" where they were murdered by Puerto Rican police, who later claimed the men were terrorists...
...then newly elected Puerto Rican governor, Carlos Romero Barcello, was in favor of the territory becoming a U.S. state, Rigau said. Barcello engineered "a wave of state-created terrorism" to convince skeptics of his government's stability, according to Rigau...
...scene on Cerro Maravilla was arranged, Rigau said, to give the impression that the police acted in self-defense. Yet evidence shows that there were two rounds of shooting, which contradicts the police story...