"First Time FBI
independence lawyer cite a grand jury in New York
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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A lawyer was summoned to a federal grand jury in New York for questioning as part of the investigation by federal authorities to Army Popular Boricua-Los Macheteros, "announced today, Thursday, Michael González Cruz, Bureau of Solidarity movement.
spokesman told AP that three agents of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (FBI, in English) recently delivered a citation to the Puerto Rican lawyer Elliot Monteverde Torres at his home in Dallas, Texas, to go on May 23 before a grand jury in New York. "Supposedly, (the subpoena) is related to the investigation of the Boricua Popular Army, Los Macheteros, that made (the FBI office) San Juan", Gonzalez said Cruz in an interview with the AP.
It was not immediately possible to get a reaction the FBI. The press officer of the FBI in Puerto Rico, Harry Rodriguez, referred questions to the New York office, but the calls went unanswered.
González Monteverde Torres Cruz said that independence is identified as was a student leader at Rutgers University in New Jersey and was spokesman for the coalition Vieques Alliance, a secessionist organization that brings together human rights groups, peace and independence of Puerto Ricans and other nationalities.
González Cruz said the organization Solidarity Committee, which was created when three Puerto Ricans were summoned to a grand jury in New York earlier this year, also protest by citation of Monteverde Torres, but gave no dates for that activity. González Monteverde Torres Cruz said that independence is identified as was a student leader at Rutgers University in New Jersey and was spokesman for the coalition Vieques Alliance, a secessionist organization that brings together human rights groups, peace and independence of Puerto Ricans and other nationalities.
Today, Thursday, will carry out an activity called "Forum Against Repression" in the building of the Union of Workers of the Electric Industry and Irrigation (UTIER) in Santurce. 
After the raid on the residence of the self-proclaimed leader of the Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 23 September 2005, federal authorities have raided the homes of others then independence. An FBI agent killed during the operation Ojeda Ríos 2005.
Meanwhile, noted that another citation is pending independence of young Tania Frontera and Christopher Torres, whose appearance was postponed in January but still not dated. After the raid on the residence of the self-proclaimed leader of the Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 23 September 2005, federal authorities have raided the homes of others then independence. An FBI agent killed during the operation Ojeda Ríos 2005. independence movement leaders, including a Puerto Rican congressman, Jose Serrano, have expressed concern that grand jury subpoenas to be a repeat of the repression of separatists who lived during the 20th century.
For several decades, reporting to the authorities watched carefully each action of the independence, the respondents pointed to records by the Police of Puerto Rico and the FBI, and talked with neighbors and patrons of the independence and told them that those people living in their community were terrorists.
practice was declared folders calls illegal by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and the Intelligence Division of Police, which was used for these purposes, was dismantled. The independence folders sued the government and obtained compensation.
Many stories narrated in court how their careers and their lives were ruined by community police informants that watered false rumors that they were bad people and dangerous.
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