Word: torresola
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...living gunman over, jerked roughly at his coat, fumbled through his pockets, pulled out his shirt and carefully snapped the elastic band of his underwear to be certain it was not hooked to a hidden bomb mechanism. They demanded his name. He whispered: "Oscar Collazo." His companion was Griselio Torresola. They were Puerto Ricans. Guards frisking the dead gunman's pockets found a letter written in Spanish. Translated, it read...
When he returned to Puerto Rico in 1947, Albizu found that he was a back number. He spent much of his time talking bitterly to a few followers at the mountain home of Blanca Canales Torresola, cousin of the man shot dead last week on the steps of Blair-Lee House. Most Puerto Ricans had come to realize that independence, with the accompanying loss of tariff advantages and tax refunds, would be economic suicide. And in recent years, Puerto Rico had won more & more self-rule. Only two years ago Puerto Ricans had elected their own governor for the first...