The Cerro Maravilla mountain gained notoriety in Puerto Rico and internationally as the site where Puerto Rico Police ambushed two young Puerto Rican independence advocates in 1978 , murdering both , in an incident now known as the Cerro Maravilla murders . The men , aged 18 and 23 , had been lured to the place by an undercover police agent to attempt to destroy the communications towers in an effort to call attention to the incarceration of Puerto Rican political prisoners in the United States . The killing of the two men was covered up by the Puerto Rico Police and several high-level Puerto Rico government officials , and were not investigated diligently by the FBI , for which a later FBI director apologized
Cerro Maravilla murders
Cerro Maravilla murders
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