Carmen Serdán

María del Carmen Serdán Alatriste (1875 in Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla – August 28, 1948) was a Mexican revolutionary.^[1]^[2] She shared the ideas of the Mexican Revolution and sympathized with Francisco I Madero. She was the sister of Aquiles Serdán Alatriste, also a revolutionary, and granddaughter of Miguel Cástulo Alatriste Castro, who served as the Liberal governor of the state of Puebla from 1857 to 1861.^[1]^[3]

Early life

Her father was the lawyer Manuel Serdán Guanes (1843-1880), who was editor of the People's Law, the first agrarian reform plan in the country. Her mother, María del Carmen Alatriste Cuesta (1849-?), also gave birth to Natalia (1875-1938), Aquiles (1877-1910) and Máximo Serdán Alatriste (1879-1910).^[4]^[5]

Path

She worked with her brother Aquiles (both belonged to the National Anti-reelectionist Party (later the Progressive Constitutional Party), founded by her and Francisco I. Madero during the campaign in favor of the latter, who opposed the regime of Porfirio Díaz.

The 18 of November 1910, her family residence was attacked by the federal army and was about to be searched by the police chief Miguel Cabrera. The Serdán family resisted, while her brother Maximus barricaded himself on the roof. María del Carmen exhorted the population from a balcony of her house.

She was wounded and captured. She was sent to the prison of La Merced and later to the municipal hospital of San Pedro (see Royal Hospital of San Pedro or Temple of the Ex-Hospital of San Pedro and San Pedro Art Museum). When Victoriano Huerta's term ended, she worked in various hospitals as a nurse. She lived her last years in her hometown and died on August 28, 1948.

She was a contributor to the satirical magazine El Hijo del Ahuizote and the newspaper Diario del Hogar.

Carmen Serdán was one of the few women who spread the Diaz - Creelman interview (es) (which detonated the situation that would end up generating the Mexican Revolution) in gazettes and meetings.

She founded and was part of the Revolutionary Junta de Puebla.

She organized the reception for Francisco I. Madero in Puebla, in the company of a group of women from that city, with whom she carried out anti-reelectionist propaganda actions. Madero proposed to the group a policy of equality in work and pay. The group was joined by Sara Pérez Romero, the candidate's wife. The 20 of November 1910, Carmen Serdán was in charge of the logistics of the revolutionary movement in the state of Puebla state. In those days, she used a code language of her invention and a pseudonym, "Marcos Serrato", to exchange, through several newspapers, messages with her brother Aquiles, who was in San Antonio, Texas. While the men were being watched by the government of Mucio P. Martínez, the women of the so-called Feminine Club were in charge of the war preparations and of spreading the San Luis Plan, which indicated the steps to follow in the armed uprising.

Acknowledgments

In her memory, several schools (kindergartens, primary and secondary), houses of culture, markets, libraries, colonies and sports facilities in Mexico are named after her.

References

^ ^a ^b Mirandé, Alfredo; Enríquez, Evangelina (1981-03-15). La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-53160-1.
^ LaFrance, David G. (August 2007). Revolution in Mexico's Heartland: Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla, 1913-1920. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-5600-3.
^ Casta_eda, Antonia (2007-07-01). Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-3384-3.
^ Carrillo, Jesús Márquez; Salas, Sergio Francisco Rosas (2010). Hilo y trama: biografías de políticos y militares en Puebla : 1790-1940 (in Spanish). Educación y Cultura. ISBN 978-607-8022-28-1.
^ Alatorre, Angeles Mendieta (1971). Carmen Serdán (in Spanish). Centro de Estudios Históricos de Puebla.

Berbera Editores (2004). Cien breves biografías de mexicanos célebres. Berbera editores. ISBN 968-5275-40-8.

[:0-1] Mirandé, Alfredo; Enríquez, Evangelina (1981-03-15). La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-53160-1.

[2] LaFrance, David G. (August 2007). Revolution in Mexico's Heartland: Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla, 1913-1920. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-5600-3.

[3] Casta_eda, Antonia (2007-07-01). Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-3384-3.

[4] Carrillo, Jesús Márquez; Salas, Sergio Francisco Rosas (2010). Hilo y trama: biografías de políticos y militares en Puebla : 1790-1940 (in Spanish). Educación y Cultura. ISBN 978-607-8022-28-1.

[5] Alatorre, Angeles Mendieta (1971). Carmen Serdán (in Spanish). Centro de Estudios Históricos de Puebla.

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Important people	Porfirio Díaz Francisco I. Madero José María Pino Suárez Victoriano Huerta Francisco "Pancho" Villa Venustiano Carranza Emiliano Zapata Álvaro Obregón Ricardo Flores Magón Pascual Orozco Carmen Serdán Aquiles Serdán Plutarco Elías Calles Lázaro Cárdenas José Yves Limantour Ramón Corral Francisco León de la Barra Félix Díaz Velasco Bernardo Reyes Eufemio Zapata Manuel Palafox Genovevo de la O
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