Julieta Campusano (31 May 1918, Coquimbo – 11 June 1991) was a Chilean politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Chile. Campusano was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.[1]
In 1944 the Chilean Federation of Women's Institution (FECHIF) was founded, with Campusano as one of its leaders. In 1947, Campusano was elected municipal councilor in Santiago de Chile.[2]
Campusano went into exile after the September 11, 1973 coup d'état. In the 1980s she returned to Chile, but was arrested.[3] In May 1987, she was sentenced to banishment to Sierra Gorda in northern Chile.[4] She died of cancer in 1991.
References edit
- ^ Kaminsky, Amy K. (1999-01-01). After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-3148-3.
- ^ http://www.archivochile.com/Mov_sociales/mov_mujeres/MSmovmujeres0008.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Kaminsky, Amy K. (1999-01-01). After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-3148-3.
- ^ Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human; Rights, Inter-American Court of Human (1990-02-01). Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos 1987 (in Spanish). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7923-0265-0.
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