Comunicado de prensa enviado a "PReb":
SERRANO SENDS FBI FILES
WITH NEW FUPI DOCUMENTS
Informe sobre los nacionalistas; año de 1936
La decisión del FBI de actuar agresivamente
contra los independentistas
en 1960
Documento del FBI espiando reunión del MPI
en el 1960
M.P.I.: Movimiento Pro
Independencia de Puerto
Rico
Reacción del rep. Serrano ante informe de
la Oficina del Procurador
General de los
Estados Unidos sobre la
muerte de Filiberto
Ojeda Ruiz
Congresistas piden investiguen muerte de
Filiberto Ojeda
Congresistas ante abusos FBI en Puerto Rico
Cuestionan Homeland Sec. ante incidentes
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Congressman
José E. Serrano
(D-NY)
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Washington, D.C., July 28, 2003
Congressman Jose E. Serrano (D-NY) today sent copies of FBI files related to
the persecution of leaders
of the independence
movement to the Senate
Investigative Committee
in Puerto Rico, including
newly released
information about the Federation
of University
Students for Independence.
The eight boxes of files detail the FBI's
persecution of leaders of the independence movement
and include information
about Luis Munoz
Marin, Pedro Albizu Campos,
and COINTELPRO,
the FBI's counterintelligence
program, designed
by the United States Government
to uncover
organizations or individuals
who were considered
threats to national security.
COINTELPRO
was not isolated to Puerto
Rico. It affected
people of different political
ideologies
across this country. The
independence movement
was targeted as one of
those groups. Former
independence leader Pedro
Albizu Campos died
shortly after his release
from Federal prison,
and commonwealth supporter
Luis Munoz Marin
was the first elected governor
of Puerto
Rico who was born on the
island.
Of those eight boxes, four contain new information
about the Federation of
University Students
(FUPI).
"Delivering these documents will start
the process in Puerto Rico
of investigating
this issue," Serrano said.
"It
is part of a lengthy and
important process
that will allow Puerto
Ricans and people
all over the country and
the world to learn
more about this ugly chapter
in our history."
In Puerto Rico, the Senate passed a resolution
March 14 calling for a
probe into the federal
government's role in the
creation of political
dossiers on members of
the Independence Party.
The Puerto Rican government
also has established
a fund to compensate people
targeted by this
operation.
Serrano raised the issue of the FBI files
on March 16 during the
FBI's budget hearing
before the Commerce, Justice,
State, Judiciary
and Related Agencies Subcommittee
of the
House Appropriations Committee,
which funds
the FBI, among other federal
agencies. Serrano
is ranking Democrat on
the Subcommittee.
Serrano is sending the FBI files to Puerto
Rico Senator Kenneth McClintock,
President
of the Commission on Government
and Federal
Affairs, which is overseeing
the investigation,
Senator Manuel Rodriguez
Orellana, of the
Puerto Rico Independence
Party, and Eduardo
Bhatia, of the Democratic
Popular Party.
"It is only fitting that these documents
be delivered to Puerto
Rico where many of
these activities took place,
where it has
been known that the FBI
targeted professors,
university students, and
so many others,"
Serrano said.
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SERRANO DICE OPERATIVO FBI PODRÍA CAMBIAR
PERCEPCIONES DE PUERTORRIQUEÑOS
SOBRE EE.UU.
Martes, 27 de septiembre
de 2005
SAN JUAN (AP) - El congresista demócrata de origen puertorriqueño
José Serrano afirmó
hoy que el operativo
en el que el Negociado
Federal de Investigaciones
(FBI) disparó y mató
al dirigente independentista
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos cambiará la forma en que los puertorriqueños
perciben al gobierno
estadounidense. |
Serrano, nacido en Mayagüez y quien está
en su noveno ciclo en el
Congreso federal
como representante por
Nueva York, dijo que
las expresiones de indignación
por el operativo
no se limitan al sector
independentista.
"Eso ha tocado a mucha
gente y es posible
que cambie la relación
o la forma en que
la gente vea la relación
de Estados Unidos
con Puerto Rico. Personas
que no veían un
gran problema con la relación
con Estados
Unidos podrían ahora ver
esto como un acto
de arrogancia total de
Estados Unidos para
demostrar su fuerza", dijo
Serrano desde
Washington a Prensa Asociada.
Serrano sostuvo que sectores
estadistas y
estadolibristas han expresado
su descontento
con "la arrogancia" del
FBI de
no informarle al gobierno
local sobre el
operativo y de "quizás
permitir que
el hombre se muriera".
nota: El líder Machetero, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, fue asesinado a tiros
por el FBI el 23 de septiembre
del 2005,
día de la conmemoración
del Grito de Lares.
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