Lolita Lebrón. Lolita Dolores Lebrón de Perez, born on Nov. 19, 1919, in Lares, P.R., where her father was a coffee plantation foreman. It was in Lares that she joined the Puerto Rican Liberal Party. A Puerto Rican nationalist she was convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes after carrying out an armed attack on the US Capitol in 1954. As the New York Times described in her obituary, “she blazed her way to notoriety with a Luger pistol and patriotic shouts as she led three other Puerto Rican nationalists.” But Lolita “remained proud of the shooting, which came two years after Puerto Rico, formerly a territory of the United States, had become a commonwealth. She dismissed that status as only more colonization and demanded complete independence. On the day of the shooting, she said she had fully expected to give up her life.” She was imprisoned for 25 years and refused to apply for parole based on her strongly-held political convictions. She was released from prison in 1979 after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter. The mother of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, Lolita Dolores Lebrón de Perez is a revered revolutionary hero.

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