 Balbás Capó was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1864.Balbás Capó was among a group of 229 Puerto Ricans who, at the time of the imposition of American citizenship on Puerto Ricans in 1917, campaigned to reject the imposition of American citizenship and protested the American citizenship by failing to register for the American military service as required by Federal law.Balbás Capó made history again when he was arrested and sentenced to seven years imprisonment for using his newspaper "El Heraldo de las Antillas" to fight the draft, American citizenship and the americanization of Puerto Rico.