Havana
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Assa Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army, a fugitive and a fugitive with a $2 million FBI pay in her head, has passed away in Havana, who has been politically exiled by Fidel Castro, the Cuban Foreign Office announced Friday.
According to a short announcement, Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimado, passed away on Thursday with “health illness and her senior age.”
Shakur, the godfather and step entrepreneur of Slain Rapper Tupac Shakur, was 78 years old.
A candid supporter of the armed revolution in the United States, Shakur was convicted of her role in the 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, which killed a state trooper. Shakur was injured in a shootout and claimed that the FBI targeted her for assassination as part of a widespread campaign against black extremist organizations in the 1960s and ’70s.
Shakur fled a New Jersey prison in 1979 and began running.
She resurfaced in Cuba in 1984, where Cuban leader Fidel Castro awarded her political asylum. While living in Cuba, Shakur wrote books, appeared in documentaries and laughed at us with his efforts to force her to hand over.
In 2013, the FBI made Shakur the first woman on the most wanted terrorist list, and along with her attorney in New Jersey increased her pay for her capture to $2 million.
Her asylum on a communist-run island among several other US fugitives from Justice has fed anti-Castro activists who argued that Cuba should remain on the US State Department list sponsoring state terrorism.
