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Amalia Mallén de Ostolaza was a
Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
n essayist, translator,
suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to vo ...
, and
feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
activist. She was one of the architects of Cuba's
women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...
campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and
Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia ''Aída'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 16 January 2005 to 8 June 2014. Set in Madrid, it is a spin off of the sitcom '' 7 Vidas'', on which Aída was a recurring character. It was produced by Globomedia. The show stars Car ...
. She participated in the founding of the country's first organizations supporting this cause, such as the National Feminist Party (1912), the Suffragist Party (1913) and National Suffragist Party (1913). She was also director of the newspapers ''La Luz'' (1913) and ''El Sufragista''. In 1924, as president of the National Suffragist Party, she named journalist
María Collado Romero María Collado Romero (19 March 1885 – c. 1968) was a Cuban journalist, poet, and feminist. She was the first female news reporter and parliamentary reporter in Cuba. She was the creator and president of the Democratic Suffragist Party of Cuba. ...
her vice president.


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