Background
Alba Calderón was born in Esmeraldas and died in Guayaquil.
Alba Calderón was born in Esmeraldas and died in Guayaquil.
She founded the movement for the recognition of women"s rights in Ecuador. She then organized the Union of Women of Guayas, for which she was elected Secretary General, while Aurora Estrada was elected its president, and Blanca Arce de Salcedo its vice president In 1958 she helped numerous Cuban refugees, and traveled to Cuba twice soon after the Cuban Revolution.
Between 1961-1963 she was the Provincial Counselor of Guayas during the presidency of Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy.
The Union of Women of Guayas got dissolved at this time, but years later its members founded the United Front of Women, with Ana Abad de Monroy as its president, whose purpose was the development of women in the historic framework of Ecuador.
But during the dictatorship of 1963 the government arrested several leaders and members of the communist party, and Alba Calderon had to go into exile in Chile.