El cobarde no hace historia
- Juana Julia Guzman
For some, the land-grabber, for others, one of the fiercest folk leaders in Colombia ❤️🔥
Juana Julia Guzmán, (1892 - 1975) a woman that without reading or writing, organized labor unions, organized land acquisitions & lead farmers towards the path to justice, in a country where any of that would earn a death sentence
As a child in Corozal, Sucre, she understood the meaning of hard labor and poverty
At a young age of 12, she was classifying tobacco leaves in an hacienda, over time she become one of the loudest voices against the greed of landowners & the complicit state forces
With the Italian socialist Vicente Adamo, started organizations like the Society to support workers and redeem women, and the society for labor & artisans in Cordoba; guaranteeing land, education, hospitals and labor rights for her community at large
Her legacy was planted in the Sinú, but her impact was felt in the country
In 1918 they took over a plot of land in Loma Grande, inspiring similar movements in Boyacá, Tolima & Cundinamarca - her fight coming at a high cost, with persecutions, prison and many state assassinations
Juana Julia never relenting, “cowards don't make history”, she would say, and to her last days she kept teaching new generations about resistance
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📷 Images from the Orlando Fals Borda archive in the Documentation Center by the Colombian National Bank in Montería
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