FBI Witch Hunt Stokes Puerto Rican Independence Movement - As an anti-terror task force targets three young Puerto Ricans in New York, people take to the streets.

They say that when Filiberto Ojeda Rios was killed, all of Puerto Rico stood still.

“The financial district shut down,” José Lopez, executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, explained recently in a small café along Paseo Boricua, the heart of Chicago’s vibrant Puerto Rican neighborhood.

His eyes lit up as he went on. “Literally all of the banks and offices were closed, and people were just standing outside, watching the caravan go by. Usually it is a one-hour trip to his tome town of Nagüabo. That day, it took seven hours. Everywhere there were hundreds of people. Little kids made their own signs that said, ‘¡Viva Filiberto!’ It was an incredible outpouring of love and compassion that really was felt throughout that whole time period.”"*

*From: http://www.alternet.org
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