The Nation : Macheteros Threaten U.S.
A Puerto Rican independence group with alleged links to Cuba threatened to retaliate “with great force” for the arrests of 14 suspects charged in a $7-million Wells Fargo robbery in 1983 in West Hartford, Conn. “Let the Yankees and their blind followers know that the Macheteros are here, with our machetes in our hands and our hearts full of revolutionary fervor,” the group--whose name means “machete wielders”--said in a letter mailed to United Press International.
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