Capetillo, Luisa

Luisa Capetillo was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in 1879 to working class parents. She worked in cigar factories as a reader, where she first became active in labor organizing. A committed activist, Capetillo traveled throughout Puerto Rico, the United States, and Cuba to contribute to the international labor movement. She wrote extensively for the Spanish press, notably in La Mujer, a short-lived feminist working-class magazine that she founded. She is the author of many works relating to her ideas, among them Ensayos libertarios (1907), La humanidad en el futuro (1910), Verdad y justicia: C...