Belén de Sárraga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Belén de Sárraga

Spanish-born Mexican journalist, feminist of the Federal Republican Party.

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1874

Place of Birth: Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Spain, Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Belén de Sárraga Hernández (Valladolid 1874- Mexico 1951) was a Spanish feminist of the Federal Republican Party.
She was the daughter of a Liberal military from Puerto Rico.
She carried out propaganda tours and she stayed in Ibero-America for long periods of time.
In the twenties, she was an anticlerical activist together with Atala Apodaca, during the Mexican Revolution.
She held conferences all over the country aided by revolutionary governments.
She actively took part in the second Spanish Republic politics.
She was exiled in México. In 1904, she was arrested and convicted in Málaga, for two months and one day of major arrest, because of giving a speech against the Polavieja General at the entrance of the Hotel where she was staying.
She criticised the General for the execution of the poet and the hero of the Philippine Independence, José Rizal.