Margarita Ortega (magonist)

Margarita Ortega

Margarita Ortega Valdés (Sonora, 1871 – Mexicali, 23 November 1913)[1] was a Mexican weapons expert, crack shot, nurse, courier, spy,[2] and the best-known magonist woman soldier.[3] Ortega was born into a wealthy Sonoran family, headed by Dolores Valdés and Pablo Ortega. They moved to Baja California in 1891, where the following year, in Tecate, Ortega married Pascual Gortar. The couple had a daughter, Rosaura Gortari Ortega, before Pascual died. While Rosaura was still an infant, Ortega married again, to Manuel Demara, son of Antonio Demara of Tecate.[4] In 1911, Ortega became member of the Mexican Liberal Party in Baja California, participating in the armed revolt against Porfirio Díaz.[5][6] In 1913, the Mexican militia captured, tortured and killed Ortega.[7]

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Aragon Castillo, Olga Alicia (22 November 2009). "Merecen tres revolucionarias ser rescatadas del olvido". La Jornada (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. p. 27. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Revolutionary Mexican Women in History and Film". Arizona State University. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Ruíz & Korrol 2006, p. 466.
  4. ↑ Estrada Barrera, Enrique (6 March 2009). "Las mujeres de México y Baja California". Periodistas en línea (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: UNAM.
  5. ↑ Samaniego López, Marco Antonio, "El impacto del maderismo en Baja California, 1911". (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ Flores Magón, Ricardo, Margarita Ortega. (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ Tutino 2012, p. 221.

Bibliography

  • Ruíz, Vicki; Korrol, Virginia Sánchez (30 June 2006). Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34681-0.
  • Tutino, John (15 May 2012). Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73718-1.


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