Rafael Cancel Miranda

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
Sábalos, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
DiedMarch 2, 2020(2020-03-02) (aged 89)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
NationalityPuerto Rican
Political partyPuerto Rican Nationalist Party
MovementPuerto Rican Independence
SpouseCarmen Jimenez Teruel
Notes
Cancel was the only Nationalist jailed in "Alcatraz"

Career

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]

Notes
  1. This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Cancel and the second or maternal family name is Miranda.

References
  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)
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