Alaíde Foppa

guatemala, feminist, poet, fem, human rights

Born Dec 03, 1914

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Passed Away Dec 19, 1980 Guatemala City, Guatemala

Lifespan 66 years old

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"Words are not silent; they give voice to the silenced generations of our mothers and sisters."

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Guatemalan-Mexican feminist pioneer, poet, art critic, and co-founder of the seminal feminist journal 'Fem'.

Biographical Record

Alaíde Foppa de Solórzano was a groundbreaking feminist theorist, poet, and university professor who helped inaugurate the modern feminist movement in Latin America.

Exiled to Mexico following the overthrow of the Guatemalan democratic government, Foppa held the first chair in the Sociology of Women at UNAM and founded the feminist journal 'Fem' in 1976.

While visiting her mother in Guatemala City in December 1980, she was forcibly abducted by government death squads and disappeared, remembered internationally as a martyr of free expression and women's rights.

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Final Resting Place

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Plaza de los Mártires Memorial
Guatemala City, Guatemala

                         GPS: 14.6300, -90.5100                    

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