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In Colorado we had a "La raza" group called "Crusade for Justice" run by Corky Gonzales. In the 70s they were a full fledged terrorist group.
They went on a bombing cam pain in the mid 1970s. Fortunately their bomb maker was a total incompetent. Two bombs went off inside the cars of the people preparing to set the bombs killing all the people in the car(3 young people in both cases). One happened in the Burger King parking lot in Boulder. The car belonged to a senior Crusade for Justice official who was never prosecuted.
For years the activists tried to blame the bombs on "the government". About a year later the number two man at Crusade for justice set off a bomb downtown Denver. He then placed two bombs about a 1/2 mile away set to go off about 30 mins later. The idea was for the first bomb to attract lots of police and fire men. Then when the second bomb went off they would all run to the scene of the second bombing. What know one new was that a third bomb was placed in a metal newspaper stand set to go off 15 mins later. The terrorist was hoping to kill all the police officers and firemen who rushed over to the site of the second bombing. Fortunately the Crusade for Justice terrorist blew himself up setting the second bomb and the bomb put in the metal newspaper stand failed to go off.
As far as I remember this pretty much put an end to the bombing campaign. In Colorado these events while widely reported at the time have fallen into some kind of memory hole. When Corky Gonzales died recently he was treated like saintly legend not the leader of a terrorist group responsible for the death of at least 7 people, attempting to kill dozens of police and firemen.