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Who?
Leona Vicario (April 10, 1789 - August 21, 1842), was one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican War of Independence,She was one of the first women journalists in Mexico. -
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Movement
Since 1810, Leona Vicario was part of a secret society called Los Guadalupes, whose members formed a kind of network, through emails with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and José María Morelos y Pavón, because they belonged to the viceregal society, and that allowed them to have access to information that other insurgents did not have -
Life trajectory
He published in newspapers such as: El Semanario Patriótico Americano, El Federalista and El Ilustrador Americano. It was in the newspaper El Ilustrador Americano where the insurgents observed her work and contacted her. When the War of Independence broke out, Leona Vicario joined the movement -
She escaped
In March 1813, one of his couriers, which was carried by a muleteer, was intercepted; Leona, upon learning of her, fled to San Ignacio, Michoacán, and from there to Huixquilucan, in the State of Mexico. -
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marriage
In 1813 she married Andrés Quintana Roo, that same year she was imprisoned when it was discovered that she was a conspirator and that she supported the Independence movement, but she managed to escape and took refuge in Oaxaca. -
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His children were
In 1817, Leona had her first daughter: Genoveva
Leona had her second daughter, María Dolores Quintana Vicario
He had a third daughter whom they named Dolores, in honor of the town where Miguel Hidalgo began the fight for independence in 1810. -
She died
Leona Vicario continued with political, journalistic and poetic activities together with her husband, whom she defended when President Anastasio Bustamante decided to persecute and condemn her in retaliation for the press campaigns that were broadcast from El Federalista, edited thanks to the resources of Leona and in which he continued to write until his death, on August 21, 1842 at his home in Mexico City -
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She was
Heroine of Mexican independence. She was declared Meritorious and Sweet Mother of the Nation on August 25, 1842.