On this day, 23 November 1913, Margarita Ortega, a Mexican schoolteacher, sharpshooter and anarchist was executed by the government of Victoriana Huerta. Two years earlier, Margarita and her daughter left her partner saying “I love you; but I also love those who suffer, and for them I fight and risk my life. I don’t want to see more men and women giving their effort, their health, their intelligence, their future to make the bourgeoisie rich. I don’t want there to be men who order around other men any more”. They threw themselves into organising and fighting in the turbulent events of the Mexican revolution. After her arrest four days earlier she was tortured but refused to name any for comrades, shouting “Cowards! Tear my skin to pieces, break my bones, drink all of my blood, and I will never denounce one of my friends”.
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