For example the Boricua Popular Army are unofficially called Macheteros because of the machete-wielding laborers of sugar cane fields of past Puerto Rico.

* Boricua Popular Army ( also known as Los Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos )

The Boricua Popular / People's Army-or Ejército Popular Boricua in Spanish-is a clandestine organization based on the island of Puerto Rico, with cells in the United States.

The group served as the predecessor of the Boricua Popular Army.

The group was part of a movement that included other clandestine organizations, including the Movimiento Independentista Revolucionario Armado, Organización de Voluntarios por la Revolución Puertorriqueña and Los Comandos Armados de Liberación, and served as predecessor for what would become the Boricua Popular Army.

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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos ( April 26, 1933 – September 23, 2005 ) was the commander-in-chief (" Responsable General ") of the Boricua Popular Army ( Ejército Popular Boricua, a. k. a., Los Macheteros ), a clandestine paramilitary organization that considers United States rule over Puerto Rico to be oppressive colonization and advocates the latter's independence.

In 1976, Ojeda Ríos founded the Boricua Popular Army ( Ejército Popular Boricua ), also known as Los Macheteros ( The Machete Wielders ), named after the sugar cane harvesters, who use machetes to cut the canes.

Ejército Popular Boricua logo.

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* September 23 – Convicted bank thief and Boricua Popular Army leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, is killed in his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when members of the FBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.

* Boricua Popular Army, a Puerto Rican independence organization

He never recorded it, but it was recorded in 1975 by Bobby Rodríguez y la Compañía in 1975, Los Soneros del Barrio in 1999, and Jimmy Sabater with Son Boricua in 2002.

In ¡ Los Soldados Son Así !, he tells about many anecdotes, jokes, and stories of the Boricua ( Puerto Rican ) soldiers, covering the period from when the ancient regiment from Puerto Rico was organized ( which today is the 65 Infantry ) up to the Second World War.

Santiago ’ s second recording with Valentin ’ s group was the album “ Soy Boricua ”, released in 1972.

A rematch was scheluded for Histeria Boricua 2011, which was promoted with a throwback angle in which he emphasized how having defeated other undefeated wrestlers such as Austin and Johnson, claiming that his loss at Christmas in PR was nothing but a fluke.

He was the protagonist of the locally produced movie for television " Santa Clos es Boricua " ( Santa Claus is Puerto Rican ) which was telecast in Puerto Rico and the United States through Televicentro on December 20, 2004.

On October 30, 1950, Álvarez was among a group of reporters who covered the Gunfight at " Salón Boricua " between Vidal Santiago Díaz, a nationalist who was the personal barber of Albizu Campos, 40 police and National Guardsmen during the Nationalist attack of San Juan.

At the time, Marvin Santiago was the singer on Valentín's band ; his biggest hit with Valentín was " Soy Boricua ", an ode to Puerto Rican nationality that has since become a patriotic song for the pro-independence faction of the island.

Mad Lion was featured on a track in which he did a duet with Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist Mexicano 777 on the track titled " Guerreros " which was a Dancehall fused Hip-Hop track that was featured on the " Boricua Guerrero: First Combat " album produced by DJ Playero & DJ Nico Canada.

Mad Lion also collaborated with Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist Rey Pirin on the track titled " Guerrillero Borincano " which was a gritty Hip-Hop track that was also featured on " Boricua Guerrero: First Combat ".

Not being the only Jamaican Dancehall artist to be featured on " Boricua Guerrero: First Combat ", Mad Lion was joined by Jahdan & the Black Hearted Skavengerz who did a solo on a Reggaeton riddim titled " Many Many More ", & the duo Curly Valentino & Demos Demarco made an appearance on the Hip-Hop track titled " Razor Sharp " with Mexicano 777.

In 1988 Boricua Giannina Braschi first published " El imperio de los sueños " ( Empire of Dreams ), the postmodern poetry classic inspired by the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Puerto Rican musician Roy Brown Ramírez set many of Corretjer's poems to music, particularly " Boricua en la luna ", " En la vida todo es ir " ( later versioned by artists such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Mercedes Sosa, Antonio Cabán Vale, Haciendo Punto en Otro Son, Fiel A La Vega, Lucecita Benítez and others ), " Sal a caminar ", " Diana de Guilarte " and " Oubao-Moín ".

At Halloween Mayhem 2011, Rivera returned to IWA for the first time since Histeria Boricua 2011, turning on a heel Pérez and seizing control by regaining the office of General Manager and joining the still-undefeated Angel and Phillip Davian to form a stable known as " La Academia Gerencial ".

's " Asuca " produced by Erick Morillo, Rare Arts ' " Boricua Posse ", Escandalo's " Mas Buena " and Fiasco's " Las Mujeres " produced by Norty Cotto, Latin Kaos ' " El Bandolero " and " Muevete Mama " and " Sugar Cane " by Afro-Cube.

These districts include the Mexican villages, such as Pilsen along 18th street, and La Villita along 26th Street ; the Puerto Rican enclave Paseo Boricua in the Humboldt Park neighborhood ; " Greektown ", along South Halsted St, immediately west of downtown ; " Little Italy ", along Taylor St ; " Chinatown "; " Polish Patches "; " Little Seoul ", around Lawrence Avenue ; a cluster of Vietnamese restaurants along Argyle Avenue near Broadway, and Indian / Pakistani along Devon Avenue.

The campus on Broadway at West 156th Street also houses The American Academy of Arts and Letters, which holds twice yearly, month-long public exhibitions, and Boricua College.

University education includes Yeshiva University and Boricua College.

On October 31, police officers and National Guardsmen surrounded Salón Boricua, a barbershop in Santurce.

As Caribbean and African-American music gained this momentum in Puerto Rico, Reggae Rap in Spanish marked the beginning of Boricua underground rap and served as an expression for millions of young people.

*" Miguel Enríquez, Corsario Boricua del Siglo XVIII.

Dr. Antonia Pantoja ( September 13, 1922-May 24, 2002 ), educator, social worker, feminist, civil rights leader and founder of ASPIRA, the Puerto Rican Forum, Boricua College and Producir.

Once the Spanish Civil War broke out, Alfonso made it clear he favoured the military uprising against the Popular Front government, but General Francisco Franco in September 1936 declared that the Nationalists would never accept Alfonso as King ( the supporters of the rival Carlist pretender made up an important part of the Franco Army ).

Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).

In February 1995, Sandinista Popular Army Cmdr.

Under the Law of Military Organization of the Sandinista Popular Army enacted just before Chamorro's election victory, Humberto Ortega retained authority over promotions, military construction, and force deployments.

In April 1940, Popular Science showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defence, but not knowing that the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy were working on radars with the same principle, stated under the illustration, " This is not U. S. Army equipment.

Police, military forces and members of the Popular Guerrilla Army ( Ejército Guerrillero Popular, or EGP ) carried out several massacres throughout the conflict.

The Popular Liberation Army demobilized while the country's biggest terrorist group, FARC has been weakened and most of their top commanders have been killed or died during the decade.

* November 24 – Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

One month after the election, on 20 October, while the senate had still to reach a decision and negotiations were actively in place between the Christian Democrats and the Popular Unity, General René Schneider, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army, was shot resisting a kidnap attempt by a group led by General Roberto Viaux.

The Japanese Red Army, Nihon Sekigun from 1971 had very close ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ).

Popular legend states the founder of Ville Platte was Marcellin Garand, an adjutant major in the Army of the French Empire, during the time of Napoleon.

In occupied Greece, however, the leftist partisans of the National Liberation Front ( EAM ) and National Popular Liberation Army ( ELAS ), now unfettered by Metaxas ' oppression, had become the largest Greek Resistance movement, enjoying considerable popular support.

* Range-Finding in the Army / How to use range-finders to get results: the erect and inverted types, Popular Science monthly, February 1919, page 118-120, Scanned by Google Books

* July 31 – Popular sitcom Dad's Army begins its nine-year run on BBC1 in the UK ( 1968 – 1977 ).

The government closed all colleges and universities and began a mass mobilization program to force draft dodgers into the Iraqi Popular Army.

* Walter E. Burton " Army of Experts Wage War on Dutch Elm Disease " Popular Science Monthly, May 1937

Also known as Los Macheteros (" the Machete Wielders ") and the " Puerto Rican Popular Army ," their active membership was calculated in 2006 by Prof. Michael González Cruz, in his book Nacionalismo Revolucionario Puertorriqueño, to be composed of approximately 5, 700 members with an additional unknown number of supporters, sympathizers, collaborators and informants throughout the U. S. and other countries.

* Army Tests Experimental Shaft Driven Motorcycles, September 1942, Popular Science

The Sahrawi People's Liberation Army, ( SPLA, often abbreviated in Spanish as ELPS-Ejercito de Liberación Popular Saharaui ), is the Polisario's army.

* Iraqi Popular Army