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Puerto Rico

Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Puerto Rico.

477Documented
0In custody
346Released

Eras of repression in Puerto Rico

Where Puerto Rico’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

2000s 274 1950s 91 1930s 33 1980s 24 1970s 24 1940s 20

Documented cases

477 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Manuel Flores
Released
Manuel was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U...
P
Pedro Angel Flores
Pedro Angel Flores was arrested during the investigation following the March 21, 1937 Ponce massacre in Puerto...
J
José E. Flores Arriaga
Released
José E. Flores Arriaga was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy training on...
E
Erika Fontánez Torres
Released
Erika Fontánez Torres was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy training on V...
J
Jaime Francisco Diaz
Released
Jaime was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U....
A
Alberto Fuentes
Released
Alberto was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the...
P
Pedro Félix Vélez
Pedro was a pastor who had left the Nationalist Party seventeen years earlier and was deprived of liberty duri...
J
Juan Galloza Acevedo
Released
Juan Galloza Acevedo was a former member of Los Macheteros who took part in the December 3, 1979 Sabana Seca a...
P
Pelegrín García
Pelegrín was a leader of the 1948 university strike detained for two months during the repression after the 19...
L
Liliana García Arroyo
Released
Liliana García Arroyo was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy training on V...
M
Maritza García Arroyo
Released
Maritza García Arroyo was arrested during the 2000 civil-disobedience campaign against U.S. Navy training on V...
G
Gustavo García López
Released
Gustavo García López was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...
C
César Gardez
César was a PIP member who testified about arrest, release and rearrest in 1950 for alleged shooting at the Na...
B
Blanca Gari Perez
Released
Blanca Gari Perez was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of...
E
Efraín Gil de Lamadrid
Efraín was imprisoned and held incommunicado for two weeks after the 1950 uprising. The thesis, citing Emelina...
N
Nydia Gonzalez Reyes
Released
Nydia Gonzalez Reyes was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part...
A
Antonio González
Antonio González was detained after participating in the 1950 Puerto Rican nationalist uprising. A seventeen-...
I
Ismael González
Released
Ismael González was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of t...
S
Salvador González
Released
Salvador was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the...
T
Tomás González Candelaria
Tomás González Candelaria was a Utuado nationalist identified in the thesis’s participant list and referred to...
S
Santiago González Castro
Released
Santiago González Castro was a Puerto Rican Nationalist and standard-bearer of the Cadets of the Republic in P...
M
Martín González Ruiz
Released
Martín González Ruiz was one of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members charged with the murder of two poli...
M
Modesto Gotay
Modesto was a seventy-year-old independence leader jailed for refusing to lower the Puerto Rican flag at his h...
P
Plinio Graciani
Released
Plinio Graciani was a Puerto Rican Nationalist organizer in Ponce and a commander of its Cadets of the Republi...

Institutions in Puerto Rico

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Puerto Rico that appear in the census’s case files.

Metropolitan Detention Center GuaynaboGuaynabo, Puerto Rico
95 cases
Federal Detention Center, GuaynaboSan Juan, Puerto Rico
93 cases
Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) GuaynaboGuaynabo, Puerto Rico
20 cases
MDC GuaynaboSan Juan, Puerto Rico
15 cases
La PrincesaSan Juan, Puerto Rico
9 cases
Vega Alta Women's PrisonVega Alta, Puerto Rico
4 cases
Arecibo Women's JailArecibo, Puerto Rico
1 case
District Jail, AreciboArecibo, Puerto Rico
1 case