Rosario Hernández Diéguez (

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, A Calesa;

Vigo Vigo (, ; ) is a city and Municipalities in Spain, municipality in the province of province of Pontevedra, Pontevedra, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest ...

, 17 February 1916 – Vigo, 3 September 1936) was a Spanish Galician

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and

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

ist, affiliated with

Unión General de Trabajadores The Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, General Union of Workers) is a major Spanish trade union, historically affiliated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). History The UGT was founded 12 August 1888 by Pablo Iglesias Posse i ...

(UGT) and

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( , PSOE ) is a Social democracy, social democratic Updated as required.The PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * List of political parties in Spain, political party ...

() (PSOE). Raped, mutilated, tortured, she died young, a victim of Franco's repression. A street in her hometown bears her name.

Biography

Rosario Hernández Diéguez was the daughter of an

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railwayman. Her home was on Calle Pino in Vigo. Everyone knew her by her

, "A Calesa". She worked as a

in the doorway of the society "El Gimnasio" on Calle del Príncipe, reading out the news in the newspapers. She visited the UGT's

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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 uprising of 18 July 1936. Captured and arrested on 3 September 1936. Imprisoned in the city's María Berdiales Fronton, she received meals brought in by her sister, Maria. Insolent, rather than submissive, devoted and obedient, she was shaved, raped, mutilated, and murdered in a

Falange Falange () is the name of a political party whose ideology is Falangism. Falange primarily refers to: * Falange Española, a Spanish political party active 1933–1934, it merged with the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (JONS) * Falange ...

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. Her body was

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ed to an iron grill before it was thrown off a boat in the

Ria de Vigo Vigo Ria () and () is an estuary in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. It is the southernmost ria of the Rías Baixas. It is located in the south of the province of Pontevedra, and extends in a northeast direction over a distance of from its mouth ...

, near the

Cíes Islands The Cíes Islands (; ) are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain, in the mouth of the Ria de Vigo. They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park (''Parque ...

Legacy

A street in Vigo's Coutadas area, between the Os Rosais institute and Travesía de Vigo bears the name Rosario Hernández Diéguez. In 2021, the story, "Rosario Hernández é un lugar", written by Marcos López Concepción, won the VIII Vigo Histórico Contest, organized by .

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