Biography
Orlando was the captain of the Mayagüez Cadets arrested and tried after the 1937 Ponce massacre.
The captain of the Mayagüez Cadets was arrested, imprisoned and tried after the 1937 Ponce massacre on riot, murder, weapons and assault-to-murder accusations. Dávila Marichal reports complete acquittal of the Nationalist defendants after a three-month trial. Trial length is not a custody total and no exact discharge day is inferred. 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 195–197; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.
