Olga Poblete Explained

Olga Poblete de Espinosa (May 21, 1908 – July 17, 1999) was a long-time women's rights activist and feminist in Chile. She was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.^[1] Poblete and Elena Caffarena were later honored as "founding matriarchs" by the Movimiento Pro-Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile of '83 or MEMCH '83.^[2] This relates to them being important members of the original MEMCH that existed in the 1940s. Along with women's rights, she was concerned with individual development and welfare issues.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aSVIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aQANAAAAIBAJ&pg=4480,31664&dq= AP via the Meriden Record of May 1, 1962
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=IWYuUakodQoC&pg=PA348 Americas by Peter Winn, pgs 348 and 350
3. Book: Pernet, Corinne A.. Peace in the World and Democracy at Home: The Chilean Women's Movement in the 1940s, in David Rock (ed.), Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 166–188. January 1994. 9780520084179.
4. Web site: Corinne A. Pernet, "El Movimiento Pro Emancipación de la Mujer Chilena en provincia: Mobilización femenina y sus obstaculos, 1935–1942," in Lorena Godoy, Elizabeth Hutchison, Karin Rosemblatt and Soledad Zarate (eds.), Disciplina y desacato: Construcción de identidad en Chile, siglos XIX y XX, Santiago, SUR/CEDEM, 1995, p. 287–329.. 2016-03-10.
5. Web site: Corinne A. Pernet, "El MEMCh hizo Historia", Santiago: Fundación Biblioteca y Archivo de la Mujer, 1997.. 2016-03-10.