Feminist. María Graciela Amaya Barrientos was a Central American feminist and trade unionist known for joining the socialist movement, founding trade unions, and forming the first feminist organization in Honduras, the Sociedad de Cultura Feminista in 1923. Raised by her brother and grandmother, she was trained in the Escuela Normal de Maestras in San Salvador where she studied Pedagogy and at 20 she moved with her family to Honduras where in 1921 she was recruited with her brother in the socialist movement. Two years later she founded the first feminist group in Honduras made up of socialist women with the objective of organizing working women, as well as night classes and forums to teach them their rights and train them in equality, also publishing a newsletter to debate issues on the emancipation of women. By 1944, socialism was outlawed in Honduras and she was arrested, imprisoned and expelled from the country along with her brother who returned to El Salvador, where she joined the National Union of Workers (UNT), the then illegal Communist Party of El Salvador and a few months later she escaped to Guatemala, where she organized the Salvadoran Liberation Committee to support exiled people from El Salvador and by 1946, she was exiled to Mexico by the Guatemalan president. She published her memoirs, "Páginas de lucha revolucionaria en Centroamérica en 1971" (Pages of Revolutionary Struggle in Central America) and "En las trincheras de la lucha por el socialismo" (In the Trenches of the Struggle for Socialism).
Feminist. María Graciela Amaya Barrientos was a Central American feminist and trade unionist known for joining the socialist movement, founding trade unions, and forming the first feminist organization in Honduras, the Sociedad de Cultura Feminista in 1923. Raised by her brother and grandmother, she was trained in the Escuela Normal de Maestras in San Salvador where she studied Pedagogy and at 20 she moved with her family to Honduras where in 1921 she was recruited with her brother in the socialist movement. Two years later she founded the first feminist group in Honduras made up of socialist women with the objective of organizing working women, as well as night classes and forums to teach them their rights and train them in equality, also publishing a newsletter to debate issues on the emancipation of women. By 1944, socialism was outlawed in Honduras and she was arrested, imprisoned and expelled from the country along with her brother who returned to El Salvador, where she joined the National Union of Workers (UNT), the then illegal Communist Party of El Salvador and a few months later she escaped to Guatemala, where she organized the Salvadoran Liberation Committee to support exiled people from El Salvador and by 1946, she was exiled to Mexico by the Guatemalan president. She published her memoirs, "Páginas de lucha revolucionaria en Centroamérica en 1971" (Pages of Revolutionary Struggle in Central America) and "En las trincheras de la lucha por el socialismo" (In the Trenches of the Struggle for Socialism).
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