How to Pronounce María Bruguera Pérez
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Nov 06, 1913 Jerez de los Caballeros, Extremadura, Spain Died on 26 Dec 1992 (aged 79)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (1913-1992)
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About María Bruguera Pérez
- María Bruguera Pérez (6 November 1913 – 26 December 1992) was a libertarian militant woman who served as a indefatigable fighter for her beliefs until her death in Madrid in 1992. Bruguera came from a family of deep libertarian convictions in a PSOE dominated town in a Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) area.
- By the age of nine, she was getting politically involved by joining Juventudes Libertarias.
- She also became involved with the women's theater group Ni Dios Ni Amo. Burguera was a 21-year-old at start of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936.
- Pregnant with what would be her only child, she initially was part of the great flow of humanity that headed towards the Spanish-Portuguese border.
- With the border being closed, she traveled with family to a plot of land owned by her partner.
- There, her partner and mother would be killed, her brother and father had a narrow escape, and Burguera and her newborn son were captured. Burguera avoided the death penalty, and had was given a 30-year prison sentence that was reduced because of her prison labor.
- She was separated from her son, with authorities changing his name to that of a saint because of changes in law demanding children be named after Catholic saints.
- After a little over eight years behind bars, Bruguera was released from a Madrid prison in 1946. CNT militant Aureliano Lobo and Bruguera became a couple shortly after her release.
- During this same period, Bruguera rejoined CNT, including clandestine meetings.
- As CNT splintered, Bruguera found herself within a feminist faction, going on to found the Committee of Free Women (Spanish: Comité de Mujeres Libres) with them.
- From this group, Bruguera would also go on to found the second wave feminist magazine, Mujeres Libertarias.
- Bruguera was cremated and her ashes laid to rest at La Almudena de Madrid Cemetery following her December 1992 death from natural causes.
