Juan Antonio Corretjer Montes, Poet and Secretary General of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and founder and leader of la Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña.
Born
(1908-03-03)March 3, 1908
Ciales, Puerto Rico
Died
January 19, 1985(1985-01-19) (aged 76)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Nationality
Puerto Rican
Organization
Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña
Political party
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Movement
Puerto Rican Independence
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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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Juan Antonio Corretjer Montes (March 3, 1908 – January 19, 1985) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist and pro-independence political activist opposing United States rule in Puerto Rico.
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