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Provides an appraisal of U.S.-Puerto Rican relations, past and present, by focusing on the 1978 scandal involving Puerto Rico's pro-state government, the police, and the FBI
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Three years ago, Puerto Rico experienced its own Watergate when televised hearings by the Puerto Rican Senate revealed an elaborate cover-up by island and U.S. officials of the 1978 deaths of two young dissidents atop Cerro Maravilla, a mountain outside Ponce. In this well-crafted account, Nelson, a freelance journalist, shows how the statements of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood administrationsthat "terrorists" Carlos Soto and Arnaldo Rosado were killed by police acting in self-defensewas rubber-stamped by the U.S. Justice Department but gradually crumbled as Puerto Rican reporters and the later hearings produced evidence that the victims, active in the independence movement, were murdered. Nelson views the complex scandal against the turbulent history of relations between the U.S. and Puerto Rico, where the "halfway" status of commonwealth has sparked political violence for three decades. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Library Journal
In 1978 two young men were ambushed and killed by Puerto Rican police as they attempted to sabotage radio trans mitters atop a mountain called Cerro Maravilla. Police claimed a shoot-out and closed the case, but an investiga tion carried out by civil rights workers and journalists, of whome Nelson was one, exploded into a major scandal and cover-up involving the governor and even the U.S. Department of Justice. How witnesses were coerced into lying under oath is described against a fasci nating back-drop of political violence related Puerto Rico's ambiguous sta tusneither a state, nor an indepen dent entity, nor autonomous with a commonwealth. As exciting as a detec tive story, this book belongs in general, as well as Latin American, collec tions. Louise Leonard, Univ. of Flori da Lib., Gainesville
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- PublisherTicknor & Fields
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0899193714
- ISBN 13 9780899193717
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages269
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MURDER UNDER TWO FLAGS. The US, Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up
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Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback. On July 25, 1978, two young men were killed by Puerto Rican police on top of a mountain called Cerro Maravilla. The police claimed the boys were terrorists, that they had died in a shoot-out. Now, initial doubts about the official story exploded into conclusive evidence of a major scandal involving the police, the former pro-statehood governor, and even the US Department of Justice and the FBI. Before the case closed, nine policemen would be tried for murder. One of a handful of journalists who probed beyond official accounts, the author tells the whole story of these two idealistic 'independentistas' who became unwitting victims of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood government. But this is more than a story of crime and corruption with serious political overtones. Using the Cerro Maravilla tragedy as the point of departure, the author provides much needed appraisal of US-Puerto Rican relations past and 'present' - from 1898 US invasion to today's poverty, racial tensions, and political controversies. Illus., Appendix, Notes and Index. 269pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. P.141 has 3 underlinings to text, as a result of an error by the author regarding the age of Carlos Enrique Soto, and also p.98 with a date error, o/w Nr. F. in vg+ dw. Seller Inventory # 14475
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