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Valentina Ramírez Avitia (14 February 1893 – 4 April 1979) was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera.She was known as "La Valentina" and "La leona de Norotal". [1] She fought against the Federales in the Mexican Revolution at a time when women were not allowed to join the army.
La Mujer en la Revolución Mexicana. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, 1961. Reséndez, Andrés (April 1995). "Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution". The Americas. 51 (4): 525– 553. doi: 10.2307/1007679. JSTOR 1007679. Ruiz-Alfaro, Sofia (2013).
Ángela Jiménez, alias Lieutenant Ángel (born 1886, Jalapa del Marqués) was a soldadera (woman fighter) during the Mexican Revolution.She performed different duties such as a flag bearer, spy and sometimes cook.
Margarita Neri was a Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution. [1] She was a Dutch-Maya Indian from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo who was one of the few female military leaders to achieve fame during the revolution.
Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (27 January 1875 – 13 July 1942) was a Mexican journalist, feminist, professor, and activist. She was an author of radical feminist literature and contributed to leftist newspapers including El Diario del Hogar and El Hijo del Ahuizote.
Clara later collaborated with her father, Herculano de la Rocha, in the attack to take control of the Sinaloa Mint, located on Rosales Street in Culiacán, Sinaloa, with success, largely thanks to the enormous cunning of Herculano who, with intelligence, knew how to defeat the federals and take control of the Sinaloa Mint.
María Quinteras de Meras was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera who rose to the rank of colonel. She dressed as a man and fought in ten battles between 1910 and 1913. Her fighting was so fierce she was thought to have supernatural powers. [1] De Meras joined Pancho Villa's army in 1910. [2]
María Arias Bernal, also known as María Pistolas (1884–1923), was a schoolteacher who was an agitator in the Mexican Revolution under Francisco I. Madero, president of Mexico 1911–1913, until his assassination in a counter-revolutionary coup by Victoriano Huerta.