Fidelia Brindis Camacho

Mexican journalist, teacher and activist (1889–1972)

Born22 November 1889

Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Chiapas, Mexico

Died26 July 1972

Occupation(s)teacher, journalist, suffragist, women's rights activist and politician

Organization(s)Assembly of the United Front for the Defence of Women's Interests
Pan-American League for the Advancement of Women

Fidelia Brindis Camacho
Born	22 November 1889 Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Chiapas, Mexico
Died	26 July 1972
Occupation(s)	teacher, journalist, suffragist, women's rights activist and politician
Organization(s)	Assembly of the United Front for the Defence of Women's Interests Pan-American League for the Advancement of Women

Fidelia Brindis Camacho (22 November 1889 – 26 July 1972) was a Mexican teacher, journalist, suffragist, women's rights activist and politician.

Brindis was born on 22 November 1889 in Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Chiapas, Mexico.^[1]^[2] She was educated at the Tuxtla Gutiérrez Teacher Training College.^[3]

Brindis moved to live and work in Mexico City,^[1] where she worked as a teacher for 43 years.^[4] During this time, she campaigned for the movements to create a teachers' insurance union and the Civil Pensions Directorate.^[1]^[5]

As an activist, Brindis also fought for gender equality and participated in the Assembly of the United Front for the Defence of Women's Interests.^[1] She campaigned for women's suffrage in the state of Chiapas.^[4] She was a delegate to the Convention of the Pan-American League for the Advancement of Women^[6] and the First Feminist Congress of Yucatán in Mérida during 1916.^[7]

Alongside teaching and activism, Brindis was the first woman to become a journalist in Mexico. From 1911 to 1913, she published articles in Chiapas Nuevo. On 18 July 1919 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Brindis also founded and became the editor of the first Mexican feminist newspaper, El Altruista.^[6]^[8] She was imprisoned for distributing a speech by Belisario Domínguez.^[9]

Brindis became the first female councillor in the municipality of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa in 1969.^[9]

Death and legacy

Brindis Camacho died on 26 July 1972 and was buried at the Panteón de Dolores in Ocozocoutla.^[10]

A preschool in Palenque, Chiapas, is named in her honour.^[11]

References

1 2 3 4 Martínez, Alma (23 November 2021). "Fidelia Brindis, pionera del movimiento feminista y primera mujer periodista". Chiapasparalelo (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2025.
↑ Pouwels, Joel Bollinger (2006). Political Journalism by Mexican Women During the Age of Revolution, 1876-1940. E. Mellen Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7734-5874-1.
↑ Santiago, Edgar Robledo (2000). Valores humanos de Chiapas (in Spanish). Autor. p. 199.
1 2 Simone, Olimpia y (16 May 2020). "Tres maestras en la historia que revolucionaron el aprendizaje de niñas y niños". Voces Feministas (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2025.
↑ Porter, Susie S. (1 June 2018). From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950. U of Nebraska Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-4962-0651-0.
1 2 "ARCHIVO GENERAL DEL ESTADO". age.chiapas.gob.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2025.
↑ Alejandre Ramírez, Gloria Luz; Torres Alonso, Eduardo (December 2016). "The First Feminist Congress of Yucatan 1916. The road to suffrage legislation and recognition of women citizenship. Construction and stumbles". Estudios políticos (México) (in Spanish) (39): 59–89. ISSN 0185-1616.
↑ Fem (in Spanish). Vol. 22. Nueva Cultura Feminista, S. C. 1998. p. 46.
1 2 "Recuerdan a Fidelia Brindis - El Heraldo de Chiapas | Noticias Locales, Policiacas, sobre México, Chiapas y el Mundo". oem.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2025.
↑ "Realizan memorial a Fidelia Brindis Camacho". Chiapasparalelo (in Mexican Spanish). 27 July 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
↑ "Fidelia Brindis Camacho - Escuela Preescolar General - Palenque - Chiapas". Estudia (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 7 May 2025.

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