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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. The Nationalists considered the US a colonial power. ==Events leading to the revolt== The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party was formed in 1922 to work for Puerto Rican Independence. By 1930 Pedro Albizu Campos, a lawyer who was the first Puerto Rican graduate from Harvard Law School, was elected president of the party. In the 1930s, the United States-appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Blanton Winship, and his police colonel Riggs applied harsh repressive measures against the Nationalist Party.〔''Puerto Rico'' By Kurt Pitzer, Tara Stevens, page 224, Published by Hunter Publishing, Inc, 2001, ISBN 1-58843-116-9, ISBN 978-1-58843-116-5〕 In 1936, Albizu Campos and the leaders of the party were arrested and jailed at the ''La Princesa'' prison in San Juan, and later sent to the Federal prison in Atlanta. On March 21, 1937, the police opened fire on the crowd at a Nationalist parade, killing 19 people in what came to be known as the Ponce Massacre. Albizu Campos returned to Puerto Rico on December 15, 1947, after spending ten years in prison. In 1948, the legislature, controlled by the Partido Popular Democratico de Puerto Rico and presided over by Luis Muñoz Marín, approved a bill to suppress government opposition.〔("La obra jurídica del Profesor David M. Helfeld (1948-2008)'; by: Dr. Carmelo Delgado Cintrón )〕 This bill, also known as ''Ley de la Mordaza'' (Gag Law) and Law 53, received the approval of the legislature on May 21, 1948. The bill was signed into law by U.S.-appointed governor Jesús T. Piñero on June 10, 1948. It became known as ''Ley 53'' (Law 53). Under this new law it would be a crime to print, publish, sell, or exhibit any material intended to paralyze or destroy the insular government; or to organize any society, group or assembly of people with a similar destructive intent. Anyone accused and found guilty of disobeying the law could be sentenced to ten years imprisonment, a fine of $10,000 dollars (U.S.), or both. According to Dr. Leopoldo Figueroa, a member of the ''Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño'' (Puerto Rican Statehood Party) and the only member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives who was not a member of the PPD,〔("Ley Núm. 282 del año 2006" )〕 the law was repressive and in violation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution guaranteeing Freedom of Speech. As such, the Law was seen as an assault on the civil rights of every Puerto Rican.〔(La Gobernación de Jesús T. Piñero y la Guerra Fría )〕 On June 21, 1948, Albizu Campos gave a speech in the town of Manatí that explained how this Gag Law violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Nationalists from all over the island had gathered to hear Albizu Campos's speech and to prevent the police from arresting him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jayuya Uprising」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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