The Wells Fargo case outlived its era. Avelino González Claudio, a founding-generation Machetero who had spent 23 years underground, was arrested in Puerto Rico in February 2008, extradited to Connecticut, and — at 65, suffering from Parkinson's disease — sentenced in 2010 to seven years for the robbery conspiracy. Supporters campaigned for him as the hemisphere's newest political prisoner of one of its oldest struggles; he was released in 2013 and returned to a hero's welcome.
His brother Norberto González Claudio, arrested in 2011 after 26 years as a fugitive, pleaded guilty and received five years, closing the federal docket on Águila Blanca nearly three decades after the robbery — with Víctor Gerena, the man who carried it out, never caught. The brothers' cases carried the Puerto Rican political-prisoner tradition, begun under Albizu Campos, into its ninth decade.