page_title: Pan-American Conference of Women
section_title: Latin America attendees
hierarchical_section_title: Pan-American Conference of Women / Latin America attendees
caption_attribution_description: English: From left: Pastoriza Flores (Ecuador), Carmen de Pinillow (Peru), Mrs. C. de Veyra (Philippine), Mrs. Jacobo Valera (Uruguay)
context_page_description: Pan-American Conference of Women occurred in Baltimore, Maryland, US in 1922. It was held in connection with the third annual convention of the National League of Women Voters in Baltimore on April 20 to 29, 1922. Cooperating with the League in bringing the Pan American Women's conference to the United States were the US Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes, the US Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, and Dr. Leo Stanton Rowe, Director General of the Pan American Union. The conference was meant to strengthen and carry a step forward the initiative undertaken at the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, when a woman's auxiliary committee was formed to develop closer cooperation between the women of the American continent.
  The countries who accepted the invitation to be present at the Conference and who sent delegates, were: Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chili, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.
context_section_description: The Latin American members of the conference included: 
  Argentina, Sra. de Le Breton; Bolivia, Sra. Arcadia Calderon de Zalles
  Brazil, Dona Bertha Lutz, Dona Beatriz do Queiroz, Miss Annie d'Armand Marchant
  Chile, Sra. do Mathicu, Srta. Graciela Mandujano, Srta.]] Margarita Mieres, Sra. Sofia de Ferrari Rojas, Srta. Luisa Zanelle Lopez, Srta. Margarita Lopez de Collio
  Colombia, Sra. Maria Suaxcz de Coronado, Srta. Hortensia Coronado, Srta. Maria Ordonez; Costa Rica, Sra. Sara Casal de Quirós
  Cuba, Sra. Emma Lopez Sena de Garrido, Sra. Elena de la Pena, Srta. L. Z. del Portillo
  Dominican Republic, Sra. Ofelia P. de Joubert
  Ecuador, Sra. Matilde de Carbo, Srta. Beatriz Carbo, Srta. Hortensia Balarezo, Srta. Pastoriza Flores, Srta. Maria Flores
  Guatemala, Sra. de Sanchez Latour
  Haiti, Mme. Charles Dube; Honduras, Srta. Mercedes Lainez
  Mexico, Srta. Elena Torres, Sra. Aurora Herrera, Sra. Luisa Garza, Srta. Eulalia Guzmán, Srta. Maria Renterfa de Meza, Sra. Julia Nava de Ruisánchez, Sra. M. C. Conde de Avila, Srta. Luz Vera
  Nicaragua, Srta. Maria Clotilde Vega, Srta. Juanita Molina
  Panama, Sra. Ester Niera de Calvo
  Paraguay, Srta. Maria Felicidad Gonzales, Srta. Ruby Gutierrez
  Peru, Srta. Margarita Conroy, Srta. Zerla Antay, Sra. Carmen de Pinillos, Srta. Laura Memeses del Caprio
  Puerto Rico, Milagros Benet de Mewton and Ana Teresa Paradas
  Uruguay, Sra. Olga Capurro de Varela, Sra. Celia Paladino de Vitale, Sr. Carlos E. Monteverde
  Venezuela, Sra. Mercedes de Guevara
  In addition, there were 27 delegates from Canada and 50 from the United States, besides eight from Puerto Rico and one from the Philippines. Among the US delegates was Sadie L. Adams, an African-American suffragist and the president of the Chicago and Northern District Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
caption: From left: Carmen de Pinillos (Peru), Pastoriza Flores (Ecuador), Mrs. C. de Veyra (Philippines), Mrs. Jacobo Valera (Uruguay)
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