Mercedes Abrego
Colombian independence heroine
Colombian independence heroine
Brazilian revolutionary
Colombian writer
Uruguayan philanthropist and benefactor, first lady of Uruguay in 1830 to 1834 and from 1838 to 1843
Mexican opera singer
Translator for Hernan Cortes
Mexican writer and poet
Uruguayan freedom fighter, writer and political wife
Cuban women’s rights activist
Guatemalan engineer and diplomat Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman to earn an engineering degree in Central America, the first woman to be accepted and attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and Guatemala’s first female ambassador.