{"id":13101,"date":"2022-10-24T14:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhcoa.org\/es\/?p=13101"},"modified":"2022-10-24T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:21:38","slug":"latino-empowerment-prudencia-ayala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhcoa.org\/es\/latino-empowerment-prudencia-ayala\/","title":{"rendered":"Latino Empowerment: Prudencia Ayala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nhcoa.org\/es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Header-Latino-Empowerment-PA-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13103\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Prudencia Ayala<\/strong> was the first woman to seek the presidency of a Latin American country. She was born on April 28, 1885 in Sonzacate, El Salvador. She came from an indigenous family. When she was 10 years old, she moved with her mother to Santa Ana, a coffee town where she became acquainted with the trade union movement. Unable to finish the second grade due to the poverty of her family, her education was self-taught and she began to earn her living as a seamstress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">In 1898, at the age of 12, she began to have premonitions which began to be published in the Diario de Occidente of Santa Ana. Her prophecies were accurate with some events such as the fall of the Kaiser of Germany in 1914, which earned her the nickname Sibila Santaneca (Sibyl of Santa Ana).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Due to the success of her publications, the director of the Santa Ana newspaper, Rosendo D\u00edaz, gave her a space in the editorials of the newspaper. He allowed her to publish, in different newspapers in Guatemala and El Salvador, her feminist ideas and her Central American unionist thoughts, as well as her ideas about equality between men and women, in addition to her poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Ayala later became a single mother of two children and was a supporter of anti-imperialism, feminism, and Central American unionism. She also expressed her rejection of dictatorships and spoke out against the U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">In 1919 she was imprisoned for criticizing the mayor of Atiquizaya in one of her columns and later, in Guatemala, she was also imprisoned for several months for accusations of collaborating with the planning of a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-text-color is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><p><strong>In 1921 she published the book <em>Escible. Aventuras de un Viaje a Guatemala<\/em> where she narrated her trip to Guatemala during the last months of the dictatorial government of Manuel Estrada Cabrera. She also published the books <em>Inmortal, Amores de Loca<\/em> and <em>Payaso literario en Combate<\/em>. At the end of the 1920s, she founded and edited the newspaper <em>Redenci\u00f3n Femenina<\/em>, where she expressed her defense of women&#8217;s rights as citizens. She also published poems in several newspapers in the country.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">In 1930, she revolutionized Latin American politics by running for the presidency of El Salvador as a single, indigenous mother with little formal education. This was a country where women could not vote. Her motivation was to change the situation of peasants in her country and above all, to fight for the rights of peasant women. She was &#8220;proud to be a humble Salvadoran Indian,&#8221; as she said when she launched her candidacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Ayala&#8217;s candidacy was repudiated by many. The newspapers of the time caricatured her and branded her as crazy, illiterate and a &#8220;bochinchera&#8221; (brawler). She had allies, such as the students who cheered for her and the founder of the newspaper<em> La Patria<\/em>, Alberto Masferrer, with whom she shared feminist and anti-imperialist ideas and who defined her cause as &#8220;noble and just.&#8221; She said that her government plan, which had 13 points, was not inferior &#8220;to those of other candidates who take themselves seriously.&#8221; In the plan, she promoted public education, support for the working class, women&#8217;s right to vote, non-discrimination against illegitimate children and the suppression &#8220;as much as possible&#8221; of aguardiente (alcohol).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Her candidacy did not prosper because the Supreme Court determined that women did not have the right to run for public office. Prudencia Ayala died in July 1936 and remained in oblivion for more than half a century until a coincidence changed her destiny. One of her sons, in 1996, saw a photo of her in an exhibition at MUPI (&#8220;Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen,&#8221; a museum that preserves El Salvador&#8217;s historical memory) and told the museum&#8217;s director that his family had a trunk filled with his mother&#8217;s writings and objects. This is how the history, writings, and personal objects of Prudencia Ayala became known by the public and were used by the museum to reconstruct her legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-text-color is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><p><strong>Prudencia Ayala went from being the &#8220;crazy&#8221; woman who ran for president to a brave woman filled with the spirit of rebellion and determination. She was a woman who fought for what she believed was right, generated a debate, and with courage, set a precedent in the struggle of Salvadoran women, paving the way for the political participation of Salvadoran women.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Long after her death, in 1950, women&#8217;s rights were established in El Salvador. It is vital that we honor the memory of the Salvadoran woman who scandalized the society of her time with her proposal to be President of El Salvador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Currently, Prudencia Ayala has become a role model for Salvadoran women. A coalition of women\u2019s groups, including the M\u00e9lidas, the Dignas, CEMUJER, and AMS, created the Concertaci\u00f3n Feminista &#8220;Prudencia Ayala,&#8221; a group composed of more than 20 feminist and women&#8217;s organizations, as well as at least 70 independent feminists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/mundo\/noticias-america-latina-43958266\">Qui\u00e9n es Prudencia Ayala, la primera mujer en Am\u00e9rica Latina que aspir\u00f3 a la presidencia de un pa\u00eds y a la que tildaron de loca &#8211; BBC News Mundo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecured.cu\/Prudencia_Ayala\">Prudencia Ayala &#8211; EcuRed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/internacional\/2021-03-07\/prudencia-ayala-la-primera-mujer-que-intento-ser-presidenta-en-america-latina.html\">Prudencia Ayala, la primera mujer que intent\u00f3 ser presidenta en Am\u00e9rica Latina | 8M: D\u00eda de la Mujer | EL PA\u00cdS (elpais.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsalvadormipais.com\/prudencia-ayala\">Prudencia Ayala, la primera mujer que quiso ser presidenta de El Salvador &#8211; El Salvador mi pa\u00eds (elsalvadormipais.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prudencia Ayala was the first woman to seek the presidency of a Latin American country. 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