José Ángel Medina Figueroa

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

A Utuado nationalist captured after the surrender at Damián Torres’s house during the 1950 uprising. His testimony describes threats to shoot the prisoners and surviving the subsequent shooting of the disarmed captives. He was among the survivors later taken into Arecibo custody; no discharge date is 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 467, 469–470; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Charges: Custody following participation in the1950 Puerto Rican nationalist uprising
Sentence: A Utuado nationalist captured after the surrender at Damián Torres’s house during the 1950 uprising. His testimony describes threats to shoot the prisoners and surviving the subsequent shooting of the disarmed captives. He was among the survivors later taken into Arecibo custody; no discharge date is supplied.

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