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    Antonio Vélez Alvarado (June 12, 1864 – January 16, 1948) was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician and revolutionary who was an advocate of Puerto Rican...
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    by this experience, Vélez Alvarado created a new flag design for Puerto Rico. A few days later, according to Dávila, Vélez Alvarado presented his new design...
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    only two survivors were known to be alive, siblings Fernando and Beatriz Vélez. The flag-bearer of the Cadets of the Republic was shot and killed during...
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    Isolina Rondón Isabel Rosado Daniel Santos Clemente Soto Vélez Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach Power, Margaret...
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    moved to New York because of political reasons were Manuel Besosa, Antonio Vélez Alvarado, Juan Ríus Rivera, and Francisco Gonzalo Marín. These four Puerto...
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  • próceres) may refer to: Prócer Que Creó Bandera Patria, a nickname for Antonio Vélez Alvarado Panteón de los Próceres, crypt inside the old Church of the Real...
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    and leader of the Peñuelas Incident. José Antonio Negrón - Leader of the Naranjito Incident. Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff - Leader of the Vieques branch of...
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    Latin American nations, to include Puerto Rico and Cuba. Brigadier General Antonio Valero de Bernabé, also known as "The Liberator from Puerto Rico", fought...
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    LGBT activist Carlos Santana Becerra, judge Yara Sofia, drag queen Antonio Vélez Alvarado, father of the Puerto Rican flag Carlos Beltrán, Professional Baseball...
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    html Nation: "We Have Nothing to Repent", TIME (Sept. 24, 1979). Nelson Antonio Denis (2015). War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s...
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    Isolina Rondón Vidal Santiago Díaz Clemente Soto Vélez Griselio Torresola Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Olga Viscal Garriga Notable nationalists...
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    Vidal Santiago Díaz Daniel Santos Clemente Soto Vélez Griselio Torresola Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach Female...
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    submitted an indictment against Albizu Campos, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Luis F. Velázquez, Clemente Soto Vélez and the following members of the cadets: Erasmo...
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    accusations against Pedro Albizu Campos, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Luis F. Velázquez, Clemente Soto Vélez and the following members of the Cadets of the...
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    of Ildefonso Ruiz Vélez. In 1918, he moved to San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico and lived with his sister. In San Juan, Soto Vélez studied electrical...
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    Puerto Ricans, Revolution and Terror in America's Colony"; Author Nelson Antonio Denis; Page 263; Publisher Nation Books; ISBN 1568585012; ISBN 978-1568585017...
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    was raised in a homestead owned by his parents. Their relative, Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff, was an important leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party...
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    Shoot-Out That Stopped It. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-6068-6. Denis, Nelson Antonio (April 7, 2015). War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in...
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  • René Antonio Alvarado Sánchez (born 15 February 1989) is a Nicaraguan professional boxer who held the WBA (Regular) super featherweight title from 2019...
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    José S. Alegría (father of Ricardo Alegría) vice-president and Antonio Vélez Alvarado "The Father of the Puerto Rican Flag" to the party's Supreme Counsel...
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    leaders arrested were Pedro Albizu Campos, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Luis F. Velazquez, Clemente Soto Vélez, Erasmo Velazquez, Julio H. Velazquez, Juan Gallardo...
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    school is now known as the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School and the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center. He died in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
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  • Vidal Santiago Díaz Daniel Santos Clemente Soto Vélez Griselio Torresola Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach Olga...
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    Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony"; Author: Nelson Antonio Denis; Publisher: Nation Books (April 7, 2015); ISBN 978-1568585017. Biography...
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    Times. February 23, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2022. Voices of Independence Antonio Gil de Lamadrid Navarro, Los Indomitos Oscar Collazo, Oscar Collazo Jonah...
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    Vidal Santiago Díaz Daniel Santos Clemente Soto Vélez Griselio Torresola Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach Olga...
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    Isolina Rondón Vidal Santiago Díaz Clemente Soto Vélez Griselio Torresola Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Olga Viscal Garriga Notable nationalists...
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    Disputed between Puerto Ricans Francisco Gonzalo Marín in 1895 and Antonio Vélez Alvarado in 1892; Based on Cuban flag by Venezuelan Narciso López and Cuban...
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  • designed the flag. According to some accounts on June 12, 1892, Antonio Vélez Alvarado was at his apartment at 219 Twenty-Third Street in Manhattan, when...
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    machine-gunned, killing four of them. The youngest rebel, 17-year-old Antonio González, pleaded for water. At this, a Guardsman remarked, "You want water...
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