independista

plural independistas

1. A member of the Puerto Rican independence movement.

   Since the 1930s, a core of "independistas" had agitated for independence for the island, which became a U.S. possession following the Spanish-American War.

   2003, Hal Marcovitz, Guardians of Safety: Law Enforcement at Ground Zero, Chelsea House Publishers, →ISBN, page 34

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   The FBI's COINTELPRO was directly responsible for murdering Black Panther Party leaders and other Black activists. FBI terrorism has also been used against the American Indian Movement and Puerto Rican indepenistas ^([sic]).

   1991 August 17, Roanne Hindin, “FBI: Not A Fashion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 5, page 4