death_date birth_place nationality name birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
13 july 1942 san juan del río , durango , mexico mexican juana belén gutiérrez de mendoza 27 january 1875 juana_belén_gutiérrez_de_mendoza . jpg juana belén gutiérrez de mendoza
 juana belén gutiérrez journalist
juana belén gutiérrez de mendoza

juana belén gutiérrez de mendoza -lrb- 27 january 187513 july 1942 -rrb- was an anarchist and feminist activist , typographer , journalist and poet born in san juan del río , durango , mexico .
while many women contributed in the mexican revolution 1910-1920 by fighting alongside their husbands , others wrote against the injustices of the díaz regime .
in may 1901 she found an anti-díaz newspaper called `` vésper '' .
she attacked the clergy in guanajuato and wrote against foreign domination in mexico .
she also wrote against the díaz regime and criticized díaz for not carrying out the requests and needs of the people .
as a result her newspaper was confiscated and she was also put in jail several times by díaz between 1904 and 1920 .
she established a new newspaper called `` el desmonte '' -lrb- 1900-1919 -rrb- and continued her writings .
she encouraged workers and peasants to vote as she wrote `` not to integrate power , but to disintegrate it , as a means of forming , not a new oligarchy but of transforming the oligarchies into truly public administrations . ''
she argued that the mexican population could not count on the leadership of political parties given that they wanted to obtain office in order to protect their own interests .
to propagate liberation ideology throughout mexico , juana belén gutiérrez de mendoza translated the works of peter kropotkin , mikhail bakunin , and pierre joseph proudhon to spanish .
even though she was intimidated throughout her life , she continued writing and educating the public on the injustices the different governments brought upon mexico .
she is one of the many intellectuals who contributed with her writings to the mexican revolution .
she was also a caxcan indian from the state of durango .
