Consuelo Lee de Corretjer

AKA: Doña Consuelo Lee de Corretjer
Released
Full name:Consuelo Lee Tapia
Date of birth:09. 02. 1904
Date of death:02. 09. 1989
Age:85† Deceased
Gender:Female
Race:Hispanic
Era:1930s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Puerto Rican Independence Socialism Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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Biography

Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and Nationalist Party activist; wife and political comrade of the poet and Nationalist leader Juan Antonio Corretjer. Imprisoned in 1936 in the wave of arrests that followed the assassination of Police Chief E. Francis Riggs and the prosecution of Pedro Albizu Campos; held in Puerto Rican and U.S. federal custody as a Nationalist Party member. She continued writing and organizing for Puerto Rican independence until her death in 1989.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy / Nationalist Party membership (1936 roundup
Arrested: Mar 1, 1936
Sentence: Federal imprisonment (term not precisely documented in available sources) Verdict as recorded: Yes — sentenced under the wave of federal prosecutions against the Nationalist Party Charges as recorded: Conspiracy / Nationalist Party membership (1936 roundup following the Riggs assassination)
Convicted: Yes

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