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Gilberto Martínez

Gender:Male
Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Puerto Rican Independence
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Biography

Gilberto was a Utuado nationalist who survived the shooting of surrendered captives during the 1950 uprising with wounds in his forearms, hands and fingers. The thesis cites his testimony about subsequent transfer to Arecibo, and Heriberto Marín’s memoir explicitly places him in Arecibo jail with inadequately treated wounds. Exact endpoints and final sentence are not supplied. Source: José Manuel Dávila Marichal, Organizando la revolución: El Ejército Libertador del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico y la insurrección nacionalista de 1950 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid doctoral thesis, 2020), physical/printed page 470, 532; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Charges: Custody following participation in the1950 Puerto Rican nationalist uprising
Sentence: A Utuado nationalist who survived the shooting of surrendered captives during the 1950 uprising with wounds in his forearms, hands and fingers. The thesis cites his testimony about subsequent transfer to Arecibo, and Heriberto Marín’s memoir explicitly places him in Arecibo jail with inadequately treated wounds. Exact endpoints and final sentence are not supplied.