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On Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, one of the most tragic events in Puerto Rican history took place in Ponce when authorities opened fire on a peaceful march organized by the Nationalist Party, causing the deaths and injuries of a large number of nationalists and bystanders, as well as two policemen who also died. The Hays Commission, created to investigate the event, determined that it was provoked in large measure by a climate of intolerance, discrimination, and contempt for civil rights under the government of General Blanton Winship. The fallen included Juan Cotal, José Antonio Delgado, María Hernández, Luis Jiménez, Ceferino Loyola, Georgina Maldonado, Bolívar Márquez, Ramón Ortiz, Ulpiano Perea, Juan Reyes, Conrado Rivera, Ivan Rodríguez, Jenaro Rodríguez, Obdulio Rosario, Eusebio Sánchez, Juan Santos, Juan Torres, and Teodoro Vélez.
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