Blanca canales biography

Blanca Canales (February 17, – July 25, ) was an educator and a Puerto Rican Nationalist. Canales joined the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in and helped organize the Daughters of Freedom, the women's branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.

As a leader of the Nationalist party in Jayuya, she stored arms in her house, which were used in a revolt in against United States rule over the island.

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During the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the s she led members in the Jayuya Uprising, in which Nationalists took control of the town for three days.