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In 1974 the group split, transitioning into the Movimiento de la Liberación de Mujeres (Women’s Liberation Movement, MLM). In 1977 it was integrated into the Coalición de Mujeres Feministas (Coalition of Feminist Women), refocussing its activity on reproductive rights .
The Flowers Festival (Spanish: Feria de las Flores) is a festival that takes place in Medellín, Colombia.The annual festival is a significant driver of tourism and holds importance to the cultural fabric of the city.
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores was born in La Esperanza, Honduras [13] into the Lenca people, a predominant Indigenous group in southwestern Honduras.The youngest of 12, she grew up in the 1970s during a time of civil unrest and violence in Central America.
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
In her analysis, this depiction is disputed by empirical research from archival sources and oral histories. She writes that many interpretations of the Hundred Flowers campaign "underestimate the fear on the part of Mao and party leadership over an escalating atmosphere of anticommunism within the communist world in the aftermath of the East ...
A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest at The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, 21 October 1967. Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. [1]
Mujeres Libres (English: Free Women) was an anarchist women's organisation that existed in Spain from 1936 to 1939. Founded by Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Mercedes Comaposada, and Amparo Poch y Gascón as a small women's group in Madrid, it rapidly grew to a national federation of 30,000 members at its height in the summer of 1938.
Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos (English: Our Lady of Saint John of the Lakes) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by Mexican and Texan faithful. The original image is a popular focus for pilgrims and is located in the state of Jalisco , in central Mexico , 122 kilometers (76 mi) northeast of the city of Guadalajara .