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Salvadoran social activist (1885–1936)

Prudencia Ayala (28 April 1885 – 11 July 1936) was a Salvadoranwriter, social activist, and pioneer campaigner for women's rights in El Salvador, as well as the first woman to run for president in El Salvador and Latin America.

Early life

Prudencia Ayala was born on 28 April 1885, to a working-class Indigenous family in Sonzacate. Her parents were Aurelia Ayala and Vicente Chief. When she was ten years old, her family moved to Santa Ana City, where she attended María Luisa de Cristofine's elementary school.^[1] Despite never finishing her studies due to the lack of resources of her family,^[2] she progressed through self-teaching.

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She learned to sew and worked as a seamstress along with her future activities. She assured she had the capacity of predicting the future through messages she received from "mysterious voices". This allowed her to gain some relevance among her close relatives, making her