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Alaíde Foppa
Guatemalan poet, feminist, and educator (1914–c. 1980)
Alaíde Foppa
María Alaíde Foppa Falla (3 December 1914 – disappeared 19 December 1980) was a Guatemalan academic, feminist, poet, human rights defender, and translator who fled to Mexico after the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and eventually was disappeared during a return visit to Guatemala in 1980. Born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1914, Foppa came from a wealthy liberal family. She moved to Italy around 1930, where she began writing poetry in Italian and later studied literature and art history at the Sapienza University of Rome. She then moved to Guatemala in 1943, where she was deeply moved by the social injustice she perceived under the regime of Jorge Ubico. She became a Guatemalan citizen in 1944 and developed connections with the revolutionary movement that forced Ubico's resignation that year. Foppa married labor activist Alfonso Solórzano, who fled to Mexico after the 1954 coup. She eventually joined him in Mexico City in 1957, where she participated in academic and artistic circles. While in Mexico...
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