Margarita Neri

Margarita Neri was a Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution.[1] She was a Dutch-Maya Indian from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo who was one of the few female military leaders to achieve fame during the revolution.[1][2] Neri is said to have led over 1,000 soldiers in 1910 through Mexico just as if she were a man earning the utmost respect of Zapata but known for her cruelty.[2][3] She commanded Zapatista forces through the Tabasco and Chiapas region during the early stages of the Mexican Revolution, and It is rumored that she once declared her intention to behead Porfirio Diaz personally.[4]

Further reading

  • Fuentes, Andrés Reséndez (April 1995). "Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution1". The Americas. 51 (4): 525–553. doi:10.2307/1007679. JSTOR 1007679.
  • Turner, Frederick C. (1967). "Los efectos de la participación femenina en la Revolución de 1910" [The effects of female participation in the 1910 Revolution]. Historia Mexicana (in Spanish). 16 (4): 603–620. ISSN 0185-0172. JSTOR 25134649.

References

  1. ^ a b Diederich, Phillippe (28 June 2017). "Soldaderas: The Women of the Mexican Revolution". Mamiverse.
  2. ^ a b Fuentes AR. Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution. The Americas. 1995;51(4):525-553. doi:10.2307/1007679
  3. ^ "Revolutionary Mexican Women in History and Film".
  4. ^ Ruíz, Vicki, and Virginia Sánchez Korrol. Latinas in the United States a historical encyclopedia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.
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