1936: Antecedentes y juicios a los Nacionalistas y a Albizu Campos [1936: Background and trials of the Nationalists and Albizu Campos] was independently published this year by attorney René Arrillaga Armendáriz. Here are translated excerpts of related reviews.
“After reading… I was able to recognize the role played by the assassination of Riggs and the murder of Orlando Colón, the police officer involved in the Río Piedras Massacre shortly after the events of February 23, during the conspiracy trial against the Nationalist leadership that began in the summer of 1936. The institutional bitterness of the FBI, the Grand Jury, the prosecutor’s office, and the judiciary were notable. Throughout these proceedings, I came to recognize the numerous shadows that cloud the grand (and small) narrative of Puerto Rican Nationalism and the enormity of the obstacles that must be overcome to produce a balanced understanding of it.”
– Mario Cancel in his review of Rafael Acevedo’s book Muere Riggs.
“Attorney René Arrillaga Armendáriz, the first researcher to study the available transcripts of the trial, has illuminatingly summarized the episode; Toro Nazario’s testimony will perhaps be remembered more readily for what he was not allowed to say than for what he was allowed to testify… a matter for further discussion.”
– “Nacionalistas: una introducción a la ‘Carta a Irma’ de 1939,” Claridad, June 28, 2023
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For an interview with the author (in Spanish) by Wilkins Román Samot, visit https://elpostantillano.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37127:rene-arrillaga-armendariz-nuestro-entrevistado&catid=293&Itemid=1002
1936: Antecedentes y juicios a los Nacionalistas y a Albizu Campos [1936: Background and trials of the Nationalists and Albizu Campos] was independently published this year by attorney René Arrillaga Armendáriz. Here are translated excerpts of related reviews. “After reading… I was able to recognize the role played by the assassination of Riggs and the murder