Gladys Marin

She was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was born in Curepto, 1941. She, as a child, became interested in social issues, and in her youth she joined the "JJ.CC." while she was studying at the Escuela Normalista. Then she was elected President of the “Federación de Estudiantes Normalistas” Quickly, she moved into his political career. She was a youth leader, general secretary of the JJ.CC. and deputy (reelected).          

In 1961 she married Jorge Muñoz Poutays, a mining engineer, with whom she has two children. Since the coup d'etat of 1973 she was forced to go underground. In Costa Rica she learns that her husband disappears. She returns in 1978 and in 1984 assumed the Secretary of the Communist Party in1994 she assumed the top job: Secretary General. She, in 1998, filed the first lawsuit against the dictator Augusto Pinochet for the disappearance of her husband. The following year she was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic, being defeated. She dies,  2006, in Santiago, because to a brain tumor.

Her job was to work to modify the statutes of the Escuela Normal. She teaches at various schools in delivering social risk to children all their knowledge. she prompted many initiatives, such as building playgrounds in many cities, sports, places to walk or dance.

I admire Gladys Marin because sympathize with Vietnam, fought the civil war and fascism and mobilize the youth for it. Especially for being a strong woman, determined, who dreamed of a world more just and equal, and because she was not afraid to try to realize this ideal. =D