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The killing of Adolfina Villanueva Osorio occurred on 6 February 1980 at Tocones, Loíza, Puerto Rico. Villanueva Osorio, an Afro–Puerto Rican woman born c. 1946, was shot dead as police attempted to evict her family from their home. The house was quickly demolished and at trial, a police officer was found not guilty of shooting her.
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Río Piedras massacre: 1935-10-24 Río Piedras: 5 [1]Ponce massacre: 1937-03-21 Ponce: 21 [2]Utuado uprising: 1950-10-30 Utuado
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The Puerto Rico Department of Justice no longer considered Marrero Rivera a suspect on March 9, 2015, five years after the murder. Luis Gustavo Rivera Seijo "El Manco" – A homeless one-armed man (missing left forearm) with a previously-diagnosed mental disorder, who grew up in Dorado del Mar, the same neighborhood where the González Cacho ...
The Ponce massacre was an event that took place on Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when a peaceful civilian march turned into a police shooting in which 17 civilians and two policemen were killed, [6] and more than 200 civilians wounded.
The Cerro Maravilla murders, also known as the Cerro Maravilla massacre, [3] occurred on July 25, 1978, at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain in Ponce, Puerto Rico, [1] [2] wherein two young Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Carlos Enrique Soto Arriví [a] (born December 8, 1959) and Arnaldo Darío Rosado Torres [b] (born November 23, 1953), were murdered in a Puerto Rico Police ambush.
The FBI then expected the extradition process from Spain could take between six and nine months. The agency said the arrest of the Puerto Rican fugitive was the result of a joint effort between the FBI's legal attaches, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Puerto Rico, Spanish police, Interpol and U.S. Department of Justice.
In 1931, the U.S.-appointed Governor of Puerto Rico, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., named Dr. Carlos E. Chardón as Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. He was the first Puerto Rican to have this position. In 1935, Chardón initiated a project based on the ideas of Luis Muñoz Marín, who at the time was a Senator in the Puerto Rican ...