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Ángel Colón Feliciano

Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Puerto Rican Independence Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico
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Biography

A Utuado nationalist captured with his comrades after surrendering from the house of Damián Torres during the 1950 uprising. He testified that the captives were disarmed and shot, that his brother Julio was killed, and that he survived by pretending to be dead. The account establishes actual capture and custody, without a final release date. Source: José Manuel Dávila Marichal, Organizando la revolución: El Ejército Libertador del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico y la insurrección nacionalista de 1950 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid doctoral thesis, 2020), physical/printed page 467, 469–470; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Charges: Custody following participation in the1950 Puerto Rican nationalist uprising
Sentence: A Utuado nationalist captured with his comrades after surrendering from the house of Damián Torres during the 1950 uprising. He testified that the captives were disarmed and shot, that his brother Julio was killed, and that he survived by pretending to be dead. The account establishes actual capture and custody, without a final release date.