Biography
Vieques community leader and one of the Vieques 4, sentenced in 1979 for trespassing on the US Navy bombing range in protest of the Navy's occupation of the island. He spent decades organizing against the Navy presence on Vieques. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
El Mundo reported on November 27, 1979 that Juan Marí Brás was denied a visit to Ismael Guadalupe and Ramón Alicea while both were serving their Vieques-related sentences at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. This identifies a documented prison phase, not the location of every day in custody. Police reports dated February 21, 1980 record the two men’s actual homecoming at Isla Verde airport after federal imprisonment; the date of the homecoming is not treated as an exact prison discharge date.
