Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón

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Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón ; and Amalia de Castillo Ledón (* 18th August 1898 in Santander Jimenez, Mexico ; † 2. February 1986 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican diplomat, politician and writer.

Origin, family and education

Amalia González Caballero was born in San Jerónimo near Santander Jiménez in the eastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas in 1898 as the daughter of Vicente González Garcilazo and Doña María Caballero Garza. She attended elementary school in Padilla. She later trained at a teachers' college in Ciudad Victoria , the capital of Tamaulipas. After moving her family to Mexico City, she completed study there at the Mexican National Conservatory of Music in rhetoric and theater studies as a BA from. As a result, she enrolled in the Escuela Superior to study English and studied various subjects at the Philosophical Faculty of what was then the Universidad Nacional de México . On September 30, 1927 she married from Nayarit originating historian Luis Castillo Ledón, with whom she had three children: Luis Antonio, Beatriz and Gabriela Castillo Ledón.

Cultural and social work

She founded the Teatro de Masas . In 1929 she published her first book, Cuando las hojas caen . In 1929 she was instrumental in founding the National Child Protection Association. At the same time worked on the establishment of popular education and recreation facilities. She was the founder and director of the Club Internacional de Mujeres (1932) and the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres (1937), both of which were supposed to improve the situation and the rights of Mexican women. In 1939 she was appointed representative of Mexico to the Inter-American Women's Commission (CIM). In the early 1940s González was editor of the journal Hogar , from 1946 to 1952 she wrote columns for the Excelsior . She supported the establishment of comedy theaters and initially appeared herself. With the aim of making dramatic art accessible to all social groups, she sponsored the construction of large tents and open-air stages such as Parque México . Theater groups gave performances in parks, factories, prisons, schools and also in large tents in the slum areas .

The international stage

In 1945, Amalia de Castillo Ledón was a member of the Mexican delegation who drafted the United Nations Charter in San Francisco . In 1946 she was a founding member of the UN Commission on Women's Rights and used her influence on Latin American UN delegates to achieve the explicit recognition of equality between women and men by the UN, as reflected in the UN Charter of Human Rights . In 1947 González was elected President of the CIM and ensured that women's policy issues were taken into account more intensively within the Organization of American States (OAS). In 1948 she became president of the women's association of the social democratic PRI and worked for the introduction of women's suffrage, which was finally successful in 1952 after González had collected 20,000 supporting signatures.

She became Mexico's first ambassador and served as a representative of her country in Sweden (1953), Switzerland (1957), Finland (1959) and Austria (1965-1970). In 1965 she was the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations. In the 1960s, Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos appointed her State Secretary for Culture in the Ministry of Education, also the first woman to hold this position. In 1965 González became Mexico's representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency .

Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón died on June 2, 1986 in Mexico City. In 2012, her remains were transferred to the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres .

Selected Works

Essays

  • Cuatro estancias poéticas (1964)
  • Viena, sitial de la música de todos los tiempos

Dramas

  • Cuando las hojas caen (1929)
  • Cubos de Noria (1934)
  • Coqueta (1945)
  • Bajo el mismo techo (1945)
  • Peligro - Deshielo (1963)
  • La verdad escondida (1963)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Aida Bustos Martínez, Juan Pablo Caso Laguarda, Paulina González Garibay, Ireri Maldonado Calderón: Amalia González Caballero Castillo de Ledón: sufragista mexicana in the journal ACMor , Centro Universitario Anglo Mexicano (ed.), 2011
  2. ↑ Breve biografía ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jimenez.gob.mx
  3. ↑ Amalia González Caballero fue precursora feminista tamaulipeca , short article on sinembargo.mx from November 22, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c Amalia González, la epopeya de las sufragistas (Spanish) , Cimac Noticias. July 8, 2003. Retrieved August 18, 2015. 
  5. ↑ a b c d e Amalia de Castillo Ledón, recuperada (Spanish) , Proceso. November 3, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2015. 
  6. ↑ a b c d Eladio Cortés, Mirta Barrea-Marlys: Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater . Greenwood Publishing Group, 01/01/2003, ISBN 978-0-313-29041-1 , pp. 303 ff.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón ( Spanish ) Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. 2007. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved on August 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ Reconocen la trascendente laboratory de Amalia Gonzalez Caballero (Spanish) , La Jornada. July 8, 2006. Retrieved August 19, 2015. 
  9. ↑ La ilustre tamaulipeca Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón descansa en la Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres (Spanish) , Crónica. November 23, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2015. 
personal data
SURNAME Castillo Ledón, Amalia González Caballero de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castillo Ledón, Amalia de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican author, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander Jiménez, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1986
Place of death Mexico city