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Juan Rodríguez Cruz

Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rican Independence Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico Cadetes de la República
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Biography

A sixteen-year-old Cadet of the Republic imprisoned after the 1950 uprising. The thesis records confinement on December 12, 1950 under Law 53 for attending nationalist events in cadet uniform, with a José Martí biography used as evidence and bail of $25,000. 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 531; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Charges: Law 53 (Ley de la Mordaza)
Incarcerated: Dec 12, 1950
Sentence: A sixteen-year-old Cadet of the Republic imprisoned after the 1950 uprising. The thesis records confinement on December 12, 1950 under Law 53 for attending nationalist events in cadet uniform, with a José Martí biography used as evidence and bail of $25,000.