The violent call for Puerto Rican independence earned Rafael Cancel Miranda 25 years in prison. He is remembered by his wife, María de los Ángeles Vázquez, and their son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez.

Its protagonist, a trans woman named Lolita, is inspired by Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, who 70 years ago led an attack on the U.S. Capitol advocating independence for her nation ...

The attack on the Capitol had occurred March 1, 1954. Four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party entered the spectators gallery with handguns, at a time when there was minimal security on ...

President Bill Clinton granted her clemency. By Trip Gabriel Dylcia Pagan, a Bronx-born Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and spent 19 years in prison before being ...

The four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party injured five congressmen. Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich.) was the most gravely wounded, surviving a punctured lung and shattered liver.

Prominent Puerto Rican historian Fernando Picó ... Spanish colonial rule, nationalist movements and class structures. In his 2006 English-language edition, Picó updated the chapters to include ...

In 1975, the Puerto Rican nationalist group known as the FALN carried out a lethal bombing at a New York restaurant, Fraunces Tavern—one of many attacks. (New York Daily News / Getty ...

You don't know about 1954? MARTÍNEZ: Seventy years ago today, his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and three other Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire in the House of Representatives and injured ...

When President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentences of the four living Puerto Rican nationalists who launched attacks against members of Congress and President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s ...

On March 1st, 1954, Rafael Cancel Miranda, alongside three other Puerto Rican Nationalists, opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives,calling for the island’s independence, and injuring ...