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#SEP.- The Undersecretary of Basic Education, Angélica Noemí Juárez Pérez, presented during the “Women in History” section of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s “Mañanera del Pueblo”, the story of Elvia Carrillo Puerto, who promoted the vote for women; birth control and mixed and secular education within the National Education System, and who for her socialist activism was popularly known as the “Red Nun of the Mayab”.

Through a video presented by the head of Basic Education, it was detailed that Elvia Carrillo Puerto was originally from Motul, Yucatan, and was a revolutionary and socialist who played a transcendental role in the history of Mexican feminism.

Elvia Carrillo Puerto was born in 1881, in a region that was characterized by the development of the henequen industry and the inhumane exploitation of the mostly indigenous labor force during the Porfirian regime,

“Unlike most women of the time, she had access to literature and study. She was educated in an advanced school, the Instituto Literario de Niñas, founded by Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, an educator and poetess, editor of the magazine La Siempreviva, who introduced feminism among her students and considered education as a way of emancipation for women”.

The video explained that Carrillo Puerto had her first approach to political life and social organization at the beginning of the 20th century when she opposed exploitation in the henequen industry. Later, he participated in the Maderista campaign and supported the peasant insurrections in Yucatan, which were repressed by the federal army.

With the arrival of Salvador Alvarado to the government in Yucatan, the state took the vanguard of the women’s revolutionary movement; the state was the scene of two feminist congresses in which the demand for women to be considered citizens was discussed.

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