Word: munoz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Lunacy." As the five victims of the shooting spree convalesced in hospitals, authorities in Puerto Rico and on the mainland moved swiftly to prevent further bloodshed and to squelch the Nationalist Party. Soon after the shooting, Commonwealth Governor Luis Munoz Marin was in Washington to express to President Eisenhower the shocked "indignation" of his people for "this savage and unbelievable lunacy." On his return to San Juan, he ordered police to round up leaders of the Nationalists, Communists and other parties of violence...
...Luis Munoz Marin said the round-up had been instituted after a five day study of the Nationalists' connections with the shooting. In Saturday's report on Albizu Campos, the CRIMSON placed the blame for the attack on his management of the small, fanatical party since...
...Luiz Munoz Marin, with the backing of two-thirds of the Legislature, on Jan. 5, rejected an independance Party move to consider President Eisenhower's five-year old offer of Independence for Puerto Rico...
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...
...Juan, Governor Luis Munoz Marin expressed profuse Latin appreciation of the generous offer-but added that the Puerto Ricans do not want independence. Under the present arrangement, Puerto Rico sends its goods tariff-free to the U.S., and exports to the U.S. (without restriction since they are U.S. citizens) hundreds of thousands of its surplus people. Most Puerto Ricans do not want to give all that up for the cold rigors of nationhood...