Rosario Hernández Diéguez
Rosario Hernández Diéguez (nickname, A Calesa; Vigo, February 17, 1916 – Vigo, September 3, 1936) was a Spanish Galicia (Spain), Galician newspaper hawker and trade unionist, affiliated with Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party () (PSOE). Raped, mutilated, tortured, she died young, a victim of White Terror (Spain), Franco's repression. A street in her hometown bears her name. Biography Rosario Hernández Diéguez was the daughter of an Anarchism, anarchist Rail transport, railwayman. Her home was on Calle Pino in Vigo. Everyone knew her by her nickname, "A Calesa". She worked as a newspaper hawker in the doorway of the society "El Gimnasio" on Calle del Príncipe, reading out the news in the newspapers. She visited the UGT's Casa del pueblo of the UGT, and attended PSOE meetings. In sympathy with the latter, she actively participated in the worker demonstrations of the time. Hernandez fled with the Spanish coup of July 1936, uprising of J ...
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Vigo
Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and Municipalities in Spain, municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ria de Vigo, the southernmost of the Rías Baixas. The municipality, with an area of and a population of 299,321 on June 15, 2022 including rural parishes, is the most populous municipality in Galicia. The area of the municipality includes the Cíes Islands, part of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park. Vigo is one of the region's primary economic agents, owing to the French Stellantis Vigo Plant and to its Port of Vigo, port. Close to the Portugal–Spain border, Vigo is part of the Galicia–North Portugal Euroregion. The European Fisheries Control Agency is headquartered in Vigo. History In the Early Middle Ages, the small village of Vigo was part of t ...
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