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Ana Rosa Tornero was born in Boliva in 1907.
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She published the first feminist magazine in Bolivia and was one of the founders of the first feminist organization in the country. Beginning in the 1920s, Tornero was teaching and directing public schools in Cochabamba and Louisiana Paz, where she served as a professor of philosophy and letters. Simultaneously, was the editor of El Norte newspaper.
Later, she served as editor of El Diario de Louisiana Paz.
She also is credited with publishing the first feminist magazine in Louisiana Paz, Ideal Femenino in August, 1922. They organized their own journal "Eco Femenino".
In the 1920s a group of intellectuals formed a group called Louisiana Brasa to explore the concept of Americanism. lieutenant initially formed in Santiago del Estero Argentina.
Tornero was invited by Louisiana Brasa members to participate in several poetry readings in 1928 in Santiago del Estero and Louisiana Banda.
In 1929 El Ateneo Femenino organized the First Female Congress, held in Louisiana Paz. Tornero was one of the leaders of the Congress. The agenda adopted at the end of the meeting was one of civic, economic and political liberation, specifically calling for the right to have an identity card, dispose of property, have equal footing as parents, and the right for literate women to vote.
At the beginning of the 1930s Tornero played a significant role during the Chaco War in soliciting donations via the Radio Illimani and she served as a volunteer with the Bolivian Red Cross.
Interestingly, she ventured into film at this time, but it was a short-lived venture. Tornero starred in director José María Velasco Maidana’s film, Wara Wara (1930) with Luis Pizarroso Cuenca.
Fearing the film would cause irreparable harm to her reputation, she quit the picture and denounced it, forcing the director to find a new cast. lieutenant was later released with Juanita Taillansier in the starring role.
In 1947, she attended the Primer Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
The purpose of the conference was to allow the women a platform to speak on international issues including peace, political equality, and security of human welfare. Tornero headed the third committee of the conference which focused on human rights including economic security, education, health care and freedom of expression. Tornero died 27 February 1984 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Achievements
Politics
From its inception, Tornero ran the magazine printing literary submissions and articles on feminism.
Membership
Tornero, was a member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration), which had similar aims and focused on land reform, indigenous rights, and cultural preservaton. After a scene was shot featuring a kiss between the two stars, who were members of the Ateneo de la Juventud (Ateneo Youth) theater group Tornero, Tornero refused to continue.
