They catalyzed roughly a dozen skirmishes throughout Puerto Rico including Peñuelas , the Jayuya Uprising , the Utuado Uprising , the San Juan Nationalist revolt , and other shootouts in Mayagüez , Naranjito , and Arecibo . During the 1950 Jayuya Uprising , Blanca Canales declared Puerto Rico a free republic . Two days after the creation of the Commonwealth , two Nationalists attempted to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman in Washington , DC
San Juan Nationalist revolt
San Juan Nationalist revolt
Independence movement in Puerto Rico