Rafael Cancel Miranda

Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate (1930-2020)

Rafael Cancel Miranda[note 1] (July 18, 1930 – March 2, 2020) was a poet, political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and an supporter of Puerto Rican independence.

Rafael Cancel Miranda
Born(1930-07-18)July 18, 1930
DiedMarch 2, 2020(2020-03-02) (aged 89)
NationalityPuerto Rican
Political partyPuerto Rican Nationalist Party
MovementPuerto Rican Independence
SpouseCarmen Jimenez Teruel
Notes
Cancel was the only Nationalist jailed in "Alcatraz"

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On March 1, 1954, Robert together with fellow Nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Andrés Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez entered the United States Capitol building armed with automatic pistols and fired 30 shots. Five congressmen were hit.

Cancel Miranda was the only Nationalist out of the four to have been jailed in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a Federal Bureau of Prisons federal prison.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter pardoned Cancel Miranda, Lolita Lebrón and Irving Flores Rodríguez after they had served 25 years in prison.[1]

Cancel Miranda died on March 2, 2020 at his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico of congestive heart failure at the age of 89.[2]

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  1. "We Have Nothing to Repent". Time. September 24, 1979. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
  2. Fallece Rafael Cancel Miranda, ex preso político y el último sobreviviente del ataque al Congreso en 1954 (in Spanish)