Mokwepa Caxcan

* Altman, Ida. The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550. University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

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Xochipilli, seated. The Borgia Codex.

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On this day, 27 January 1875, Mexican revolutionary and feminist Juana Belén Gutiérrez Chavez (later de Mendoza) was born to a mestizo father and a Caxcan Indigenous mother. Educating herself as a child, she began to write for the radical press, and she was jailed in 1897 for criticising mine workers’ conditions in Chihuahua state. She later became a teacher, translated numerous classic anarchist texts by the likes of Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin into Spanish, and contributed prolifically to revolutionary publications, and more mainstream ones on working class issues. In 1907, she founded Las Hijas de Anáhuac, an anarchist-feminist group which agitated for strikes for better working conditions for women. Some political rivals accused her of being a lesbian for living with a woman, which she denied, while others accused her of being promiscuous for having male friends. She enthusiastically took part in the revolution which began in 1911, and was imprisoned for three years. Upon her release she set up a military unit in the army of Emiliano Zapata, who made her a colonel. She kept up her political activity advocating for rights for women, workers and Indigenous peoples until her death in 1942. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/1908389536012854/?type=3

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