María Hernández Zarco

María Hernández Zarco was born on 8 August 1889, in Mexico City. She was the eldest daughter of Vicente Hernández and María Zarco, who had four other children. She was a paternal granddaughter of the historian Juan E. Hernández y Dávalos and a maternal great-granddaughter of the journalist Francisco Zarco. Upon the death of her father in 1906, she began working as a printer in the printing press "La mujer Mexicana" of Luz Fernández, widow of Herrera, where she printed the newspaper La Voz de México and later the newspaper El Reformador, a publication directed by Andrés Molina. Enríquez and Luis Cabrera Lobato.^[2]

María Hernández Zarco was a supporter of Francisco I. Madero, was affiliated with the liberal club "Benito Juárez" and was a founding member of the Casa del Obrero Mundial in 1912.^[3] After the Ten Tragic Days, the assassination of Madero and the establishment of Victoriano Huerta's dictatorship, many newspapers and printing houses opposed to the Huerta government were closed, including the newspaper El Reformador, which supported the Madero government.^[4]