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| Born | María del Carmen Serdán Alatriste (1875-11-11)November 11, 1875 |
| Died | August 28, 1948(1948-08-28) (aged 72) Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla, Mexico |
| Resting place | Museo Regional de la Revolución Mexicana |
| Other names | Marcos Serrato (pseudonym) |
| Occupation(s) | Revolutionary, nurse, journalist |
| Known for | Revolutionary activism during theMexican Revolution; member of theNational Anti-Reelectionist Party |
| Political party | National Anti-Reelectionist Party |
| Parent(s) | Manuel Serdán Guanes and María del Carmen Alatriste Cuesta |
| Relatives | Aquiles Serdán (brother),Natalia Serdán (sister), Máximo Serdán (brother), Miguel Cástulo Alatriste (grandfather) |
María del Carmen Serdán Alatriste (1875 inPuebla de Zaragoza, Puebla – August 28, 1948) was a Mexican revolutionary.[1][2] She shared the ideas of theMexican Revolution and sympathized with Francisco I Madero. She was the sister ofAquiles Serdán Alatriste, also a revolutionary, and granddaughter ofMiguel Cástulo Alatriste Castro, who served as the Liberal governor of the state ofPuebla from 1857 to 1861.[1][3]
Her father was the lawyerManuel Serdán Guanes (1843-1880), who was editor of the People's Law, the firstagrarian reform plan in the country. Her mother, María del Carmen Alatriste Cuesta (1849-?), also gave birth to Natalia (1875-1938), Aquiles (1877-1910) and Máximo Serdán Alatriste (1879-1910).[4][5]
She worked with her brother Aquiles (both belonged to the National Anti-reelectionist Party (later theProgressive Constitutional Party), founded by her andFrancisco I. Madero during the campaign in favor of the latter, who opposed the regime ofPorfirio Díaz.
The 18 of November 1910, her family residence was attacked by the federal army and was about to be searched by the police chief Miguel Cabrera. The Serdán family resisted, while her brother Maximus barricaded himself on the roof. María del Carmen exhorted the population from a balcony of her house.
She was wounded and captured. She was sent to the prison ofLa Merced and later to the municipal hospital of San Pedro (seeRoyal Hospital of San Pedro or Temple of the Ex-Hospital of San Pedro andSan Pedro Art Museum). WhenVictoriano Huerta's term ended, she worked in various hospitals as anurse. She lived her last years in her hometown and died on August 28, 1948.
She was a contributor to the satirical magazineEl Hijo del Ahuizote and the newspaperDiario del Hogar.
Carmen Serdán was one of the few women who spread theDiaz - Creelman interview (es) (which detonated the situation that would end up generating the Mexican Revolution) in gazettes and meetings.
She founded and was part of the Revolutionary Junta de Puebla.
She organized the reception for Francisco I. Madero in Puebla, in the company of a group of women from that city, with whom she carried out anti-reelectionist propaganda actions. Madero proposed to the group a policy of equality in work and pay. The group was joined by Sara Pérez Romero, the candidate's wife. The 20 of November 1910, Carmen Serdán was in charge of the logistics of the revolutionary movement in the state of Puebla state. In those days, she used a code language of her invention and a pseudonym, "Marcos Serrato", to exchange, through several newspapers, messages with her brother Aquiles, who was inSan Antonio, Texas. While the men were being watched by the government ofMucio P. Martínez, the women of the so-called Feminine Club were in charge of the war preparations and of spreading the San Luis Plan, which indicated the steps to follow in the armed uprising.
In her memory, several schools (kindergartens, primary and secondary), houses of culture, markets, libraries, colonies and sports facilities in Mexico are named after her.
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