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The Puerto Rican police arrested many Nationalist Party members under this law, some of whom were sentenced to lengthy prison terms. With a new political status pending for Puerto Rico as a Commonwealth, Albizu Campos ordered armed uprisings in several Puerto Rican towns to occur on October 30, 1950.
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurrections were a repudiation of the "Free Associated State" designation of Puerto Rico - a designation they regarded as a colonial farce. They were a call for independence from US rule, demanding the recognition of the 1898 Charter of Autonomy, and Puerto Rico's international sovereignty.
Flag of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Puerto Rico portal; Note: This category contains the names of notable peeple who were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. This category is not limited to those who were "politicians" and who held political power within the party, it also contains the names of non-politicians who happened to ...
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party was founded by José Coll y Cuchí as a direct response to the American colonial government in 1919. By the 1920s, there were two other pro-independence organizations in the Island, they were the "Nationalist Youth" and the "'Independence Association of Puerto Rico".
Cancel Miranda was born in the town of Mayagüez, located on the western coast of Puerto Rico.His father, Rafael Cancel Rodríguez, was president of the Mayagüez chapter of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and his mother was a member of the Daughters of Freedom, an organization which was the women's branch of the Nationalist Party.
Nationalists were not satisfied with the people's vote in the plebiscite. In the early 1950s, Don Pedro Albizu Campos, president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, had been corresponding from his prison with 34-year-old Lolita Lebrón. Some of this correspondence discussed the Nationalist Party revolts of 1950.
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Members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Puerto Rican nationalists" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.