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Pedro Matos Matos

Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rican Independence Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
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Biography

President of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño in Utuado, detained for two days and two nights following the 1950 uprising. He was transported through Arecibo jail to the Refugio de Indigentes in Miramar. He protested that his detention lacked a basis and disrupted his party’s work. 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 505; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Charges: Political detention following the 1950 uprising
Sentence: President of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño in Utuado, detained for two days and two nights following the 1950 uprising. He was transported through Arecibo jail to the Refugio de Indigentes in Miramar. He protested that his detention lacked a basis and disrupted his party’s work.