Biography
The PIP leader testified in 1958 that soldiers arrested him at El Gran Café after a party meeting in Aguadilla and confined him in Arecibo district jail for five days. He was released in a weapons prosecution concerning a kitchen knife allegedly found in a car; the account reports acquittal after evidence that agents planted the knife. A broader passage elsewhere in the thesis implies longer group detention, so no exact endpoints or combined duration are entered. 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 549–550; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.
