individual locations across New York bombed by the organisation due to the economic interests, held by the companies affected, with Puerto Rico. 29 Shortly after this, an equally horrific attack would leave New York City traumatized, as the Fraunces Tavern, a popular lunch spot near Wall Street, was bombed in 1975, leaving four people dead and fifty-five injured. 30 Bell and Gurr state that here, ‘the intent was to kill’ a notion that took the idea of revolutionary terrorism beyond the parameters of political protest, creating a clear and significant threat to the security of the American people. 31 A final, yet conspicuous attack to be noted, is the bombing of La Guardia Airport in 1975, killing an incomprehensible 11 people and injuring a further seventy-five. 32 Al Baker comments in the New York Times , that ‘there were no credible claims of responsibility [and] no arrests were ever made’: He, and many others, have suggested involvement of the Croatian Nationalists due to the prime suspects Croatian heritage, and recent involvement in other New York City bombings. Nevertheless, it remains an ‘“open homicide” case.’ 33 Baker recalls that during the period of 1974-1977, there were ‘49 bombings attributed to the […] Puerto Rican Nationalist group’ FALN, all seeking retribution for unwanted American intervention. 34 Bell and Gurr claim that this ‘shift to armed militancy was the result of frustration with Puerto Rican electoral politics [the] 1976 vote for 29 Michael González-Cruz, Alberto Marquez Sola and Lorena Terando, ‘Puerto Rican Revolutionary Nationalism: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos and the Macheteros’, Latin American Perspectives , 35 (2008) 30 Bell and Gurr, p. 339. 31 Ibid, p. 339. 32 Baker, <www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/nyregion/10laguardia.html?pagewanted=all &_r=1&> [accessed 27 November 2015] 33 Ibid. 34 Baker, <www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/nyregion/10laguardia.html?pagewanted=all &_r=1&> [accessed 27 November 2015].
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