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Isabel Rosado Morales

AKA: Doña Isabel Rosado
Released
Date of birth:19. 08. 1907
Date of death:04. 04. 2017
Age:109 Deceased
Gender:Female
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
Time Imprisoned:
4 Years 4 Months 28 Days
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Puerto Rican Independence Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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Biography

Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader and educator known as "Doña Isabel," repeatedly imprisoned for her independentista activism. Active in the Nationalist Party from the 1930s, she was arrested in the wave of repression that followed the 1950 Jayuya Uprising and the 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives, and was held at the Vega Alta women's prison in Puerto Rico for roughly five years (1954–1958) alongside Carmen Valentín, Lolita Lebrón's mother, and other Nationalist women. Arrested again in 1985 in the FBI sweep of the Macheteros / Wells Fargo investigation. She remained a leading figure of the Nationalist Party until her death in San Juan in 2017 at the age of 109.

Case

Vega Alta Women's Prison
Charges: Seditious conspiracy / violations of Puerto Rico's Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law, Ley 53)
Arrested: Mar 4, 1954
Incarcerated: Mar 4, 1954
Released: Aug 1, 1958
Sentence: Approximately 5 years Verdict as recorded: Yes — convicted under the Gag Law in the wave of repression following the 1954 House attack
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Puerto Rico