Julio Pinto Gandia

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1930s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Anti-Imperialism Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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Biography

Julio Pinto Gandia was a leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in 1937 in the wave of repression around the 21 March 1937 Ponce Massacre, when police fired on a Palm Sunday march at Ponce, killing some twenty and wounding hundreds; the ILD defended the jailed Nationalists.

Case

Arrested: Mar 21, 1937
Sentence: Held for trial; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Held / indicted, 1937

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