Nydia Esther Cuevas

Nydia Esther Cuevas (Cuevas Rivera) is a Puerto Rican independence activist who, with Pablo Marcano García, seized the Chilean consulate in San Juan on July 3, 1978 and held the honorary consul at gunpoint for about 22 hours, surrendering on July 4. Their action demanded the release of the imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalists and the cancellation of the island's Fourth of July celebrations. She was convicted in federal court and imprisoned, and was released on August 18, 1985 and welcomed home as a hero.

Have You Seen La Nueva Mujer Puertorriqueña?, PDF page 7: The introduction identifies Nydia Cuevas as imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution, Pleasanton, California, with an explicit portrait caption. PDF 38 describes Dylcia Pagán speaking outside that prison July 4, 1979 while Nydia was held there. The booklet calls the consulate action July 4, 1978; the existing July 3 start/July 4 surrender distinction is retained. Source: https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC41_scans/41.have.you.seen.nueva.mujer.pdf#page=7

The early-1980s movement history reprinted in Que Ondee Sola, March 2010, describes Cuevas being sent to prison in California and subsequently transferred to Alderson, West Virginia. It dates the start of the Chilean consulate seizure to July 3, 1978. Its seven-and-twelve-year sentence wording for Cuevas and Pablo Marcano is preserved as a collective account without replacing the existing individually sourced penalties. The prison-transfer report is historical, not a claim that she was still imprisoned in 2010. PDF pages 12-13. Source: https://queondeesola.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/QOS-March-10.pdf#page=13