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Leona Vicario Leona Vicario was a wealthy criolla woman who became one of the most important figures of Mexico's independence movement. She used her fortune to finance the insurgents, served as a spy and messenger, and wrote some of the earliest independence journalism. She is one of very few women recognized in Mexico's Hall of Fame in the Chamber of Deputies.
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María de la Soledad Leona Camila Vicario Fernández de San Salvador, best known as Leona Vicario, was one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican War of Independence. She was dedicated to informing insurgents of movements in her home Mexico City, the capital of the viceroyalty. She was a member of Los Guadalupes, one of the earliest independence movements in New Spain. She financed the rebellion with her large fortune. She was one of the first female journalists in Mexico. She reportedly took many risks and sacrificed much wealth in the name of liberation.
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