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	Jayuya
		Jayuya Uprising - The Jayuya Uprising, also known as the Jayuya Revolt or El Grito de Jayuya, refers to the revolt against the Government of the United States in Puerto Rico which occurred on October 30, 1950 in the town of Jayuya, Puerto Rico.
		Jayuya, Puerto Rico - Jayuya is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the mountainous center of the island.
		Blanca Canales - Blanca Canales (1906 – 1996) born in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, was a Puerto Rican nationalist.
	ja29.abricad.info (127 words)

	Jayuya Uprising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On October 30, the nationalists staged uprisings in the towns of Ponce, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo, Utuado, San Juan, and Jayuya.
		In Jayuya, Canales and the Torresolas led the armed nationalists into the town and attacked the police station.
		The town was attacked by air by U.S. bomber planes and on land by artillery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jayuya_Uprising (946 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Blanca Canales (1906 – 1996) born in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, was a Puerto Rican nationalist leader.
		On October 30, 1950, Canales and her group entered the town of Jayuya waving Puerto Rican Flags (which were outlawed from 1898 to 1952) and took over the police and telephone stations in what became known as "The Jayuya Uprising.
		Jayuya was under the nationalists' control for three days until it was bombed by the planes and the artillery of the United States National Guard.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Blanca_Canales (706 words)

	Remember the 1950 Uprising of October 30: Puerto Rico (also known as the Jayuya upraising) by Carlos Rovira - ...
		October 30th is the anniversary of the 1950 upraising (also know as Jayuya Uprising), a legacy of Puerto Rican history in the 20th century.
		The Jayuya Uprising was the response of the Puerto Rican people to the repression experienced during this period.
		The decision to liberate Jayuya first was due to its strategic location in the mountains at the center of the island.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Caribbean/Puerto_Rico-Uprising_1950.html (1684 words)

	Jayuya is a municipality of Puer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jayuya is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the mountainous center of the island.
		In 1950, the town was the setting of what was known as the Jayuya Uprising, where nationalists started a revolt against the Government of the United States led by Pedro Albizu Campos.
		Jayuya is also the setting of Cerro de Punta, the island's highest peak.
	chicagoboricua.net /jayuya.htm (183 words)

	Boricua News
		In the town of Jayuya, Blanca Canales led the group of nationalists into town as the group attacked federal installations, battled local police and raised the flag of Puerto Rico (which was illegal to own in those days) over the town.
		Fighter aircraft were scrambled and shot and bombarded the towns of Jayuya and Utuado indiscriminately, destroying 70% of the town of Jayuya and even riddling school buildings with bullet holes.
		They were unsuccessful in their goal but made it through the main gate and into the main entrance area of the governor's mansion.
	www.virtualboricua.org /Docs/Jayuya01.html (1835 words)

	Armed Struggle and Imprisonment - Social Justice Wiki
		Following the "Jayuya Uprising" in 1950, a massive police action resulted in over 3,000 Nationalist arrests.
		The state was responding to a coordinated uprising, during which Nationalists attacked the Puerto Rican governor's mansion and the Blair House, where President Truman resided.
		A shoot out occurred in 1954 between Campos in the police when the tried to detain him, and he was imprisoned for a third and final time from 1954 to 1964.
	socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu /index.php?title=Armed_Struggle_and_Imprisonment&redirect=no (690 words)

	Lolita Lebrón, a Bold Fighter for Puerto Rican Independence
		Her family lived in the legendary city of Lares, known for the 1868 “El Grito de Lares” uprising against Spanish colonialism and chattel slavery in Puerto Rico.
		And because Lolita witnessed first hand the suffering of her people who were compelled by colonialism to migrate to a distant land to endure racism and discrimination, she joined the New York committee of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, led by Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos.
		It continued its activities under intense repression, especially following the 1950 Jayuya uprising and the attempted assassination in the same year of President Harry S. Truman by Nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola in retaliation for the crackdown that followed Jayuya.
	virtualboricua.org /Docs/sl03.htm (1145 words)

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		The Jayuya Uprising was the response of the Puerto Rican people to the repression experienced during this period. Brute force was used by the U.S. Government to establish a colonial regime and to maintain its dominion over Puerto Rico.
		The outcry for national liberation was increasingly heard throughout world. THE 1950 UPRISING (JAYUYA UPRISING) Under the leadership of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, which advocated an end to U.S. colonialism and the independence of Puerto Rico, gained the respect and admiration of multiple sectors of the population.
		Torresola was killed and Collazo was critically wounded in a shootout with capital police and Truman's bodyguards. THE MEANING OF JAYUYA As Puerto Ricans rebelled with guns in hand, anti-colonial struggles in Africa, Asia and Latin America waged on.
	home.earthlink.net /~jnp-ny/r1950.doc (2103 words)

	Puerto Rico’s continuing struggle for independence [S&L Magazine]
		This period of the struggle of independence from Spain reached its highest level with the 1868 ‘Grito de Lares,’ a powerful uprising led by Ramón Emeterio Betances that demanded independence and the abolition of slavery.
		In 1950, Nationalist Party members organized the Jayuya uprising.
		This uprising, centered in the town of Jayuya, extended throughout the island; it included the attack on President Truman by two Nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola.
	socialismandliberation.org /mag/index.php?aid=486 (2041 words)

	Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		October 30th is the anniversary of the 1950 uprising (also know as Jayuya Uprising), a legacy of Puerto Rican history in the 20th century.
		For more information, go to our youth section or write to info@jnp-ny.org
		More information on the Jayuya Uprising (in Spanish) can be found here: http://www.redbetances.com/html/jayuya.htm
	www.pnpr.org /history (1727 words)

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