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Celestino Vilella Mercado

Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
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Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
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Biography

The PIP representative on Fajardo’s local election board testified in 1958 about his arrest during the 1950 repression and several days confined in San Juan. He alleged denial of food until the next day, interrogation by Alma Delgado and renewed confinement after calling Albizu Campos a martyr. No exact gate dates are supplied. 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 548; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Sentence: The PIP representative on Fajardo’s local election board testified in 1958 about his arrest during the 1950 repression and several days confined in San Juan. He alleged denial of food until the next day, interrogation by Alma Delgado and renewed confinement after calling Albizu Campos a martyr. No exact gate dates are supplied.