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{{Infobox revolutionary|name=Nela Martínez|image_size=200|birthname=Mariana de Jesús Martínez Espinosa|birth_date=24 November 1912|birth_place=Cañar, [[Ecuador]]|death_date=30 July 2004|death_place=Havana, [[Cuba]]|nationality=Ecuadorian|image=Nela Martinez.png}}

'''Nela Martínez Espinosa''' (24 November 1912 – 30 July 2004) was an Ecuadorian [[Communism|communist]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Tricontinental]]|title=Nela Martínez Espinosa (1912–2004) Women of Struggle, Women in Struggle|date=2022-03-30|url=https://thetricontinental.org/studies-feminisms-3-nela-martinez/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126201027/https://thetricontinental.org/studies-feminisms-3-nela-martinez/|archive-date=2022-11-26|retrieved=2023-02-10}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Martínez was born in a very religious [[Landlord|landowning]] family in 1912. As a child, she became close to indigenous [[Peasantry|peasants]] who worked on her father's estate. She entered a [[Catholicism|Catholic]] boarding school at age 12 where she read revolutionary texts by [[José Carlos Mariátegui]] and returned to her hometown in 1927.<ref name=":0" />

== Political career ==
In 1930, Martínez visited Guayaquil with her mother and met [[Joaquín Gallegos Lara]], a member of the [[Communist Party of Ecuador]]. In 1933, she moved to Ambato, became a teacher, and joined the Communist Party. She married Gallegos in 1934, and they both moved to Quito in 1935. Martínez helped found the [[Ecuadorian Indigenous Foundation]] in 1944, the first nationwide indigenous organization in Ecuador.

After [[José Ibarra]]'s coup in 1945, Martínez began a tour of [[Latin America|Latin American]] countries starting with [[Republic of Guatemala|Guatemala]]. She traveled to [[French Republic (1946–1958)|France]] in 1949 at the invitation of the [[International Women's Federation]]. In Paris, she married the [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] [[Raymond Mériguet]] (her first husband had died in 1947).

Martínez was suspended from the PCE in 1957 due to internal struggles. In 1977, she founded the [[José Martí Cultural Institute]] to support the [[Cuban Revolution]].<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
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	'''Nela Martínez Espinosa''' (24 November 1912 – 30 July 2004) was an Ecuadorian [[Communism\|communist]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Tricontinental]]\|title=Nela Martínez Espinosa (1912–2004) Women of Struggle, Women in Struggle\|date=2022-03-30\|url=https://thetricontinental.org/studies-feminisms-3-nela-martinez/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126201027/https://thetricontinental.org/studies-feminisms-3-nela-martinez/\|archive-date=2022-11-26\|retrieved=2023-02-10}}</ref>		'''Nela Martínez Espinosa''' (24 November 1912 – 30 July 2004) was an Ecuadorian [[Communism\|communist]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|newspaper=[[Tricontinental]]\|title=Nela Martínez Espinosa (1912–2004) Women of Struggle, Women in Struggle\|date=2022-03-30\|url=https://thetricontinental.org/studies-feminisms-3-nela-martinez/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126201027/https://thetricontinental.org/studies-feminisms-3-nela-martinez/\|archive-date=2022-11-26\|retrieved=2023-02-10}}</ref>