| María Rivera | |
| Birth Date: | 1958 1, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
| Office: | Member of the Constitutional Convention |
| Constituency: | 8th Disctict |
| Term Start: | 4 July 2021 |
| Term End: | 4 July 2022 |
| Otherparty: | The List of the People (2020–2021)[1] |
| Alma Mater: | Bolivarian University of Chile (BA) |
| Occupation: | Political activist |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
María Magdalena Rivera Iribarren (born 28 January 1958) is a Chilean political activist, politician and lawyer.
She is part of the International Workers' Movement (IWM) linked to the Fourth International (of trotskyist filiation).[2] [3] [4]
When Rivera was 12 in 1970, she worked as an activist for Salvador Allende candidacy. Then, in 1972 she became part of the Revolutionary Students Front (FER).[5]
In 2019, she was a founding member of the «Popular Defender», organisation which has the objective of defending prisoners of the Social Outbrust (2019–20 protests).[5]
During the 2020–21 period, she was proposed as candidate for the Constitutional Convention,[6] which was formalized in early 2021 when was reported that she will run for the 8th District.[7] Thus, media like El Líbero ―rightist online newspaper― branded her as a «ultra» due to her trotskyist filiation[7] [6] and IWM purposes for take «the power for the workers and the people, only one solution to finish the exploitation and capitalism».[7]