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Alaíde Foppa (1914 - ''c.'' 1980?) was a poet, writer, feminist, art critic, teacher and translator. Born in Barcelona, Spain she held Guatemalan citizenship and lived in exile in Mexico. She worked as a professor in both Guatemala and Mexico. Much of her poetry was published in Mexico and she co-founded one of the first feminist publications, ''Fem'', in the country. After her husband's death, she made a trip to Guatemala to see her mother and renew her passport. She was detained and disappeared in Guatemala City on 19 December 1980, presumed to be murdered. ==Biography== María Alaíde Foppa Falla was born 3 December 1914 in Barcelona, Spain to Tito Livio Foppa and Julia Falla. Her mother was a pianist of Guatemalan descent and her father was an Argentine- Italian diplomat. She grew up traveling, living in Belgium, France and Italy. She was educated in Italy, studying the history of art and literature. She spoke fluent Italian and worked for several years as a translator. In the 1940s, Foppa attained Guatemalan citizenship, and married a Guatemalan leftist, Alfonso Solórzano. A member of the FDN, he was an "intellectual communist", who managed the Guatemala Institute of Social Security. She served on the faculty of the humanities department at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (University of San Carlos of Guatemala) and was a founder of the Italian Institute of Culture in the Central American country. She and her husband were forced to flee the country in 1954 when the presidency of Jacobo Árbenz〔 was overthrown by a CIA-backed military coup. Solórzano was a cabinet adviser to Árbenz and Foppa's oldest son Julio, was the child of Juan José Arévalo, the predecessor to Árbenz, as president of Guatemala. With her husband Solórzano, she had four other children, born in Mexico: Mario, Juan Pablo, Silvia〔 and Laura.〔 Foppa lived in exile in Mexico, working as a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she taught Italian at the School of Philosophy and Letters and offered the first-ever course at a Latin American university on the sociology of women. She lectured at other institutions, published columns and served as an art critic in local newspapers,〔 and she wrote much of her poetry in Mexico City. It is believed that other than a volume called ''Poesías'' printed in Madrid and ''La Sin Ventura'' published in Guatemala, all her other poetic works were published in Mexico, though she wrote and edited some of them at her family's farm in the Sacatepéquez Department, while visiting her mother.〔 In 1972, she created the radio program ''"Foro de la Mujer"'' (Women's Forum) which was broadcast on ''Radio Universidad'', to discuss inequalities within Mexican society, violence and how violence should be treated as a public rather than a private concern, and to explore women's lives. In 1975, she co-founded with Margarita García Flores the publication ''Fem'', a magazine for scholarly analysis of issues from a feminist perspective. Foppa financed the publication from her own funds.〔 Foppa was also a regular participant in events with Amnesty International and the International Association of Women Against Repression (AIMUR).〔 With others of the Guatemalan intellectual community, Foppa denounced the government for human rights violations and her name began appearing on published lists of "subversives".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alaíde Foppa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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