Biography
Reinaldo Trilla was one of six Mayagüez nationalist cadets whom Dávila Marichal identifies as convicted for refusing United States military service and sent to Tallahassee prison in Florida. The source places the arrests in 1948 and gives an imposed term of one year and one day. It records him free in March 1950. The imposed sentence is not counted as measured time served. The source’s anachronistic Korean War explanation is not adopted. 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 370–371; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4. In a separate imprisonment following the 1950 uprising, the thesis records that Trilla served one year and was released in November 1951. His testimony distinguishes that release from leaving for Cuba in January 1952. No exact admission or discharge day 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 544–545; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.