Rafael Cancel Miranda
(1930-2020)
Puerto Rican politician
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Rafael Cancel Miranda (July 18, 1930 - March 2, 2020) was a poet, political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and an advocate of Puerto Rican independence. On March 1, 1954, Robert together with fellow Nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Andrés Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez entered the United States Capitol building armed with automatic pistols and fired 30 shots. Five congressmen were hit, however, all the representatives survived and Cancel Miranda, along with the other three members of his group were immediately arrested. Cancel Miranda was the only Nationalist out of the four to have been jailed in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a Federal Bureau of Prisons federal prison.
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18 July 1930 Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
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| Died |
2 March 2020 (aged 89) San Juan, Puerto Rico
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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