Puerto Rican nationalist revolt that took place on October 30, 1950
Jayuya Uprising
Part of Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
Puerto Rican flag removed by a member of the National Guard after the 1950 Jayuya Uprising
Date
October 30, 1950
Location
Puerto Rico
Result
United States victory
Uprising suppressed
Belligerents
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
United States
Commanders and leaders
Blanca Canales
Luis R. Esteves
Casualties and losses
3 Nationalists dead
6 police officers injured
Part of a series on the
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Flag of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Events and revolts
Río Piedras massacre
Ponce massacre
Cadets of the Republic
Gag Law (Ley de la Mordaza)
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
Jayuya Uprising
San Juan Nationalist revolt
Utuado uprising
Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman
1954 United States Capitol shooting
Nationalist leaders
Pedro Albizu Campos
José S. Alegría
Casimiro Berenguer
Blanca Canales
Rafael Cancel Miranda
José Coll y Cuchí
Oscar Collazo
Rosa Collazo
Juan Antonio Corretjer
Julia de Burgos
Raimundo Díaz Pacheco
Lolita Lebrón
Tomás López de Victoria
Hugo Margenat
Francisco Matos Paoli
Ruth Mary Reynolds
Isolina Rondón
Vidal Santiago Díaz
Clemente Soto Vélez
Griselio Torresola
Antonio Vélez Alvarado
Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff
Olga Viscal Garriga
Notable nationalists
Margot Arce de Vázquez
Elías Beauchamp
Carmelo Delgado Delgado
Andres Figueroa Cordero
Irvin Flores
Isabel Freire de Matos
Hiram Rosado
Isabel Rosado
José Ferrer Canales
René Marqués
Pedro "Davilita" Ortiz Dávila
Germán Rieckehoff
Helen Rodríguez Trías
Daniel Santos
Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach
Félix Benítez Rexach
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