U.S. Reps Nydia Velázquez and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have penned a letter to the CIA and FBI demanding the disclosure of all materials related to the assassination of two leaders of the Puerto Rican independence movement during the 1970s.
Carlos Muñiz Varela, a Cuban living in Puerto Rico who was murdered under suspicious circumstances on April 28, 1979 at the age of 25, and Santiago “Chagui” Mari Pesquera, the son of Juan Mari Brás, Secretary General of the Socialist Party of Puerto Rico, who was gunned down March 24, 1976 at the age of 23, were two central figures in the Puerto Rican independence movement throughout the 1970s.
