Cancel Miranda, Rafael
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| born on | 18 July 1930 at 05:00 (= 05:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, 18n12, 67w08 | ||||
| Timezone | AST h4w (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   25°00'   18°03 Asc. 10°26'
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Biography
Political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and an advocate of Puerto Rican independence. On 1 March 1954, Miranda together with fellow Nationalists Lolita Lebron, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores Rodriguez entered the United States Capitol building armed with automatic pistols and fired 30 shots. Five congressmen were hit, however all the representatives survived and Cancel Miranda, along with the other three members of his group were immediately arrested. Cancel Miranda was the only Nationalist out of the four to have been jailed in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a Federal Bureau of Prisons federal prison.
On 6 September 1979 he was pardoned by Jimmy Carter.
Source Notes
Castellanos quotes birth certificate
Categories
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ political
