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October 30, 1950: Puerto Rican Insurrection. 33 die in fighting after five armed men fired on Governor Munoz Marin offices with sub-machine gun. Torresola's brother caught in burning of Post Office in Jayuya...
...state that "by nightfall many towns were in rebel hands." By nightfall on Monday there were, to be exact, two towns held by the Nationalists, the mountain villages of Utuado and Jayuya, These they continued to hold for just as long a time as it took the Puerto Rican soldiers of the National Guard to reach them. In the other seven towns (out of some seventy) where terrorist activity was reported it took the form of shooting encounters between groups of Nationalists and policemen. These were over, with few exceptions, by evening on Monday...
...tiny (3.435 sq. mi), poverty-stricken Caribbean territory-trouble which quickly spread to the steps of President Truman's residence in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Soon violence erupted in a blaze of gunfire all over the island. Seventy Nationalists seized the town of Jayuya, killing four policemen, firing the post office, police station, Selective Service headquarters and 20 homes. In Ponce, Mayaguez, Utuado, half a dozen other towns, Nationalists attacked police stations with small arms and Molotov cocktails...
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