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The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency was a series of coordinated insurrections for the secession of Puerto Rico led by the president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Don Pedro Albizu Campos, against the United States government's rule over the islands of Puerto Rico.
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.
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.
Members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (1 C, 25 P) T. ... Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency; J. Jayuya Uprising; N. San Juan Nationalist revolt; P ...
The San Juan Nationalist revolt was one of many uprisings against United States Government rule which occurred in Puerto Rico on October 30, 1950 during the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts. Amongst the uprising's main objectives were an attack on La Fortaleza (the governor's mansion in San Juan), and the U.S. Federal Court House Building ...
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 ...
In 2019, Puerto Ricans took to the streets to participate in its largest protest in recent history to oust then-Gov. Ricardo Rosselló following a political scandal involving him and a dozen ...
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency was a series of armed protests for independence from United States government rule over Puerto Rico. The Party repudiated the "Free Associated State" (Estado Libre Asociado) status that had been enacted in 1950, as the Nationalists considered it to be a continuation of colonialism. [7] [8] The ...