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Gerena worked to expand the political influence of the state’s Hispanic population and was an icon in the Puerto Rican independence movement in the years after her son joined the violent nationalist group Los Macheteros in what was then the largest cash robbery in U.S. - the proceeds of which Los Macheteros said they stole to finance an armed revolution on the island.