Alaide Foppa Falla The Unfortunate One

In the course of Alaide Foppas life she became a precursor of feminism in Mexico She was an immigrant who in her own way tried to break the molds established by her upperclass upbringing Her sensitivity and intellectual development made her question matters of social injustice educational and gender inequalities the importance of sociallycommitted art forms and the vindication of democracy throughout Latin America Her tragic end reveals much about the history of Guatemala