October
30, 1950
The
Jayuya Uprising in Puerto Rico
The Jayuya Uprising, also
known as the Jayuya Revolt or El Grito de Jayuya, was a Nationalist revolt that
took place on October 30, 1950, in the town of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. The revolt,
led by Blanca Canales, was one of the multiple revolts that occurred throughout
Puerto Rico on that day against the Puerto Rican government supported by the
United States.
From 1949 to 1950, the
Nationalists in the island planned and prepared an armed revolution. The
revolution was to take place in 1952; on the date the United States Congress
was to officially approve the Estado Libre Associado political status for
Puerto Rico.
Albizu Campos called for an
armed revolution because he considered the "new political status" to
be a colonial farce. Campos picked the town of Jayuya as the headquarters of
the revolution because of its location and because weapons were stored in the
home of Blanca Canales.
On October 26, 1950, Albizu
Campos was holding a meeting in Fajardo, when he received word that his house
in San Juan was surrounded by police waiting to arrest him. He was told that
the police had already arrested other Nationalist leaders. He escaped from
Fajardo and ordered the revolution to start. On October 27, the police in the
town of Peñuelas, intercepted and fired upon and killed 4 in a a caravan of Nationalists.
On October 30, the
Nationalists staged uprisings in the towns of Ponce, Mayagüez, Naranjito,
Arecibo, Utuado (Utuado Uprising), San Juan (San Juan Nationalist revolt), and
Jayuya.
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