The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency was a series of coordinated uprisings for the secession of Puerto Rico led by the president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Don Pedro Albizu Campos
El Imparcial headline: "Aviation bombing in Utuado"
The bodies of Nationalists Carlos Hiraldo Resto and Manuel Torres Medina lie on the ground in San Juan
Olga Viscal Garriga
(L to R) Nationalists Carmen María Pérez Gonzalez, Olga Viscal Garriga and Ruth Mary Reynolds
Pedro Albizu Campos
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Pedro Albizu Campos was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and a leading figure in a small but significant Puerto Rican independence movement. He was the president and spokesperson of the Nationa
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency
…Party insurgency was a series of coordinated uprisings for the secession of Puerto Rico led by the president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Don Pedro Albizu Campos, against the United States government's rule over the islands of Puerto Rico. The party repudiated the "Free Associated State" (Estado Libre Asociado…
Campos in a U.S. military uniform, c. 1916
Lieutenant Pedro Albizu Campos (U.S. Army)
Pedro Albizu Campos in 1936.
The Ponce Massacre, 1937. Carlos Torres Morales, a photo journalist for the newspaper El Imparcial, took this when the shooting began.