Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: As a combatant in the Republicans' struggle

of 1936-39 against the Fascist forces of General Franco, Rosario Sánchez Mora became an expert in the use of explosives.

She acquired from her comrades the nickname "la Dinamitera" (The Dynamite Girl), and was immortalised in a poem by the Left-wing writer Miguel Hernandez.

from Telegraph: Rosario Sánchez Mora

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