Murder Under Two Flags: The U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla Cover-up
- ISBN-10
- 0899193714
- ISBN-13
- 9780899193717
- Category
- True Crime / Murder / General
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Author
- Anne Nelson
Description
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 - Library Journal.
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