Biography
Carlos Lezama was identified as a Uruguayan defendant in the Tampa tobacco-workers prosecution in Luis Ortiz’s December 16, 1932 Daily Worker account. It reports a ten-year punishment in the January 19 sentencing list and explicitly places him and the prisoner printed F. Marrero in the state asylum at Chattahoochee after Raiford confinement. The paper attributes severe illness and an attempted suicide to alleged torture and beatings; these are contemporary claims, not independent medical findings. The asylum transfer remained confinement, with no established intake, transfer day, physical release or complete service total. He is kept distinct from the Cuban Jose Solar Lezama discussed in another issue. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n300-NY-dec-16-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
The February 1933 Labor Defender editorial prints Carlos Lazama alongside Cesario Alvarez among the Tampa political prisoners and alleges severe mental illness caused by prison torture. The corresponding Tampa custody and illness identify this as the existing Carlos Lezama, with the source spelling preserved as an alias rather than a duplicate person. These are attributed allegations, not an independent diagnosis or a new admission date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1933/v09n02-feb-1933-lab-def.pdf#page=4
The pamphlet's pages 4-7 describe the November 7, 1931 Labor Temple arrests and January prosecution on assault-with-intent-to-murder Officer Byrd and simple assault on Officer Wilson. It alleges guilt was presumed from presence and anti-Communist and anti-integration questioning replaced individual proof. The page 7 sentence groups are ten years for Jim Nine, Lezama, Bonilla and McDonald, three for Alvarez and Marrero, and one for the other defendants. These are imposed-term assertions; the fifteen-person/fifty-three-year account and prior fourteen-person/fifty-seven-year reports remain source discrepancies. Pages 5 and 8-9 describe his unfired weapon, an attributed suicide attempt following alleged torture, transfer to Chattahoochee and accomplished deportation to Paraguay without notice to the ILD. Paraguay is the reported destination; the existing Uruguayan nationality account is not replaced or treated as equivalent. No exact deportation date or full service is established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/tampa-terror.pdf
Page 7 prints Carlas Lezsma and says he was deported to Uruguay after the Tampa trial. This is an attributed accomplished-deportation claim, not merely an order, but supplies no departure day. Its chronology and destination must be read alongside existing later custody/release accounts and other reported destinations; no exact date, nationality change, judicial exile length or inferred continuous custody is imposed from this conflicting retrospective narrative. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n114-may-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
The January 16, 1932 report individually names the sixteen workers actually arrested November 7, 1931 at the Tampa anniversary meeting after a police and American Legion attack. It reports criminal-syndicalism, inciting-to-riot and unlawful-assembly proceedings and a federal injunction. The January trial was ongoing; no exact physical discharge, individual final sentence or completed duration is established. Daily Worker, January 16, 1932, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n014-NY-jan-16-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
