Puerto Rico

Pedro Albizu Campos

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Pedro Albizu Campos was a Puerto Rican lawyer, Harvard graduate, and from 1930 until his death the president o...

César Andreu Iglesias

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César Andreu Iglesias was a Puerto Rican Communist writer, one of the eleven defendants in the first Smith Act...

Carlos Ayes Suárez

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Carlos M. “Pío” Ayes Suárez was an anthropology and archaeology student from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, and an ac...

Judith Berkan

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Judith Berkan, a lawyer, was arrested on May 19, 1979 during a protest against U.S. Navy operations at Bahía d...

Ruben Berrios

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Rubén Berríos Martínez is the longtime president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP). On May 1, 1999,...

Luz María Berríos Berríos

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Luz María Berríos Berríos was prosecuted in the Wells Fargo case involving Los Macheteros. The individual appe...

Juan Marí Brás

Juan Marí Brás was a Puerto Rican independence and socialist leader. A contemporary El Mundo report in 1979 st...

Norma Burgos

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Norma Burgos, a sitting senator of Puerto Rico from the New Progressive Party, was among the protesters arrest...

Antonio Camacho Negron

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Antonio Camacho Negrón was a member of Los Macheteros arrested in the August 30, 1985 mass FBI raid in Puerto...

Isaac Camacho Negrón

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Isaac Camacho Negrón was arrested and detained on August 30, 1985 in the Wells Fargo/Macheteros prosecution. I...

Blanca Canales

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Blanca Canales Torresola was a Puerto Rican Nationalist leader and one of the few women in history to lead an...

Rafael Cancel Miranda

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Rafael Cancel Miranda was 23 years old at the time of the March 1, 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representa...

Vincente Balbas Capo

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Vincente Balbas Capo was from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Vincente Balbas Capo was convicted for writing an editori...

Ileana Carrión Maldonado

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Ileana Carrión Maldonado describes detention following a naval protest in May 1979 in a first-person essay pub...

Elías Samuel Castro Ramos

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Elías Samuel Castro Ramos was a Puerto Rican public-school teacher, labor unionist, and independence activist...

Elliot Vicente Castro Tirado

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Elliot Vicente Castro Tirado was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy traini...

Norberto Cintrón Fiallo

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Norberto Cintrón Fiallo was a Puerto Rican independence militant and a leader of the Armed Forces of Popular R...

Federico Cintrón-Fiallo

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Puerto Rican independentista jailed on civil contempt charges for refusing to testify before a federal grand j...

Oscar Collazo

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Oscar Collazo was a Puerto Rican Nationalist who, with Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President...

Juana Colón

Juana Colón, known as the Joan of Arc of Comerío, was a washerwoman and Socialist labor organizer in Puerto Ri...

Noel Colón Martínez

Noel Colón Martínez was a Puerto Rican lawyer, former president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association and advocat...

Luis Alfredo Colón Osorio

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Puerto Rican independence activist Luis Alfredo Colón Osorio was detained in the 1985 Wells Fargo prosecution,...

Gilberto Concepción de Gracia

Gilberto Concepción de Gracia, Puerto Rican Independence Party leader and attorney who defended Pedro Albizu C...

Rafael Cordero Santiago

Rafael Cordero Santiago, known as Churumba, was the mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, and participated in the mass...