To see all those issues he fought for manifest themselves in our LRC student foundersĪnd leaders. It has been a privilege to serve in this role and honor his legacy, and And he was, of course, a fierce advocate for He helped found the CCS department in 1969, the Chicano/a Collection Was a visionary activist who believed that the university should always be accountable Since 2020, I have served as the inaugural Gus Chavez Faculty Scholar. (which had for years been SDSU’s unofficial hub of Latinx student organizing). It was first only a concept, but now exists as a physical locationĪdjacent to the CCS Department’s Chicana and Chicano Collection space in the library They organized and pushed for the formation of a Latinx cultural center on campus.Īs we strategized, regrouped, and imagined new possibilities, the LRC as we know it Semester after my arrival to SDSU as an assistant professor of Chicana/o Studies-as I have been privileged to have worked closely with these groups since early 2018-a To supporting our founding student leaders from AChA, CAFE, EWB, and MEChA. She died in Santiago at the age of 83 in 1995.The Chicana and Chicano Studies (CCS) Department has been deeply committed for decades She continued her radio program until 1978, when she retired. Eventually, she joined the National Party and was one of the leaders behind the empty-pots movement against Salvador Allende. In the 1958 presidential election, she supported Jorge Alessandri, and in the 1964 presidential election, Jorge Prat, but she never managed to regain her former political influence. The impact of her fall quickly affected her party and it started to dissolve almost immediately. There seems to be little doubt now that the accusations were politically motivated in order to remove her from Congress. The affair eventually dissolved and nothing was ever proved against her. On August 4, 1953, she was indicted and stripped of her position for "abusing her position for personal gain", even though the congressional investigation had voted against that measure. These accusations grew until they became the Watches affair. Three women accused her to be involved in the smuggling of watches from Argentina. Her powerful oratory gained her suspicion and enmity from all political sectors. Nonetheless, her political career ended abruptly a few months later. She was duly sworn in and took her place on February 13, 1953. She won with 107,585 votes to the runner-up's 68,350, the highest margin ever obtained at that point. She also obtained the support of the Partido Democrático de Chile, the Movimiento Nacional Independiente, the Organización de Mujeres Independientes, the Movimiento Nacional Ibañista, and her own Partido Femenino, being elected senator on January 4, 1953, the first woman ever to reach the Chilean senate. Ibáñez then backed her as a candidate to replace him in the senate. After he won the presidency, he offered her a position in his cabinet as Minister of Education, but she refused, nominating instead María Teresa del Canto from her own party. During the 1952 presidential election, she became Ibáñez's campaign manager. In 1948, de la Cruz ran for a senate seat, but even though she had the support of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, she lost the election. The Feminine Party grew up very quickly among middle-class and working women. These actions were the culmination of a long struggle that began in 1913 and ended in 1949, when President Gabriel González Videla signed the law that granted the right to vote in all elections to women in Chile. In 1946, de la Cruz founded the Feminine Party of Chile. Through her radio program and her writings, she focused on increasing the political participation of women in politics and exposed the struggle of Chilean women to obtain the right to vote. As a radio journalist, she made a name for herself in Radio "Nuevo Mundo", where her daily magazine program María de la Cruz habla ( María de la Cruz Speaks Out) was a great success. She was also the publisher and editor of the magazine Luz y sombra ( Light and Shadows), dedicated to promote culture among and understanding of blind people. In 1940, she published a book of poems ( Transparencias de un Alma), and in 1942, a short novel ( Alba de Oro). From a very young age, she wrote articles and poems. She studied at the Colegio Rosa de Santiago Concha and the Liceo N✥ of Santiago. In 1953, she became the first woman ever elected to the Chilean Senate.ĭe la Cruz was born in Chimbarongo, Chile, the daughter of Marco Aurelio de la Cruz and Edicia Toledo. María de la Cruz Toledo (Septem– September 1, 1995) was a Chilean political activist for women's suffrage, a journalist, a writer, and a political commentator. First woman elected to the Chilean Senate
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