Consuelo Burgos

Released
Gender:Female
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Communism Puerto Rican Independence Communist Party of Puerto Rico
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Biography

Consuelo Burgos was one of two women among the eleven defendants in Puerto Rico's first Smith Act case, indicted in 1954 and tried in San Juan in 1956 for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government.

Case

Charges: Smith Act — conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government
Sentence: Faced a mainland prison term if convicted
Convicted: Arrested 1954; on trial in Puerto Rico (1956)

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