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José Antonio Mazzotti. José Antonio Mazzotti (1961–2024) was a Peruvian poet, scholar, and literary activist. He was Professor of Latin American Literature and King Felipe VI of Spain Professor of Spanish Culture and Civilization in the Department of Romance Studies at Tufts University, [1] President of the International Association of Peruvianists since 1996, [2] and Director of the ...
Adelina Zendejas Gómez was born on 16 December 1909 in Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico to Carmen Gómez and Manuel Zendejas Martínez. [1] As a child, Zendejas wanted to study medicine and was encouraged by her father, a railroad worker and activist and her maternal great-grandfather, Joaquín Eguía Lis [], a Catholic intellectual and the first rector of the National University of Mexico ...
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro was born in Mexico City to a mother of French-Portuguese [4] origin who moved from France to Mexico during World War II and a Mexican engineer father. Cacho attributed her refusal to compromise to her mother, who was shocked by what she called Mexicans' willingness to "negotiate their dignity in exchange for apparent freedom". [5]
Arturo Matus Espino, head of the Oficina de Atención Ciudadana de la Presidencia de la República, met with Escobedo and fellow activist, Bertha Alicia García, and pledged to continue investigating the deaths of Rubí and García's daughter, Brenda Berenice Castillo, as well as accelerate the investigation of cases of femicide in the country [13]
Graciela Amaya de García (11 January 1895 – 11 October 1995) was a Central American feminist and labor organizer. Born in El Salvador and trained as a teacher, she moved to Honduras at the age of twenty. Joining the socialist movement, she became a party operative, founding trade unions to resist the labor practices of the industrialists ...
Silvia Agüero Fernández was born in Vallecas (a district in Madrid) into a gadjo family who espoused an anti-gypsy ideology. Silvia became aware of what it meant to belong to Romani society and culture and created an intercultural association led by Roma people: Pretendemos Gitanizar el Mundo (We intend to Romaize the World).
Homero Gómez González (1969 or 1970 – January 2020) [1] was a Mexican environmental activist, agricultural engineer, and politician. He was a manager of El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve, a component of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, and a municipal president [clarification needed] and commissioner of El Rosario, Michoacán, a community in Ocampo, Michoacán.
Francisco Vera (full name Francisco Javier Vera Manzanares, born 22 July 2009 in Colombia [1]) is a climate change activist from Colombia. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] He has ...