Women of the Left: Juana Belen

The Mexican Revolution was a remarkable period in the country’s history, and the stories of the women within it well worth a retelling.  Many remarkable revolutionaries emerged through this period, including Dolores Jimenez y Muro, a political advisor to Zapata and Hermila Galindo, who advised Venustiano Carranza on womens rights.  Yet one woman still stands out, her story a testimony to the strength of Mexican female revolutionaries and her diversity remarkable. A political theorist, journalist, teacher, military commander and agitator, Juana Belen is not nearly as widely known as she should be.