Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE

English Level II - NRC:3098

Inspirational People:
TRANSITO AMAGUAÑA
Members:
Alta Calapi Norma Mercedes.
Aizaga Ruiz Henry Ricardo.
Casa Quinatoa Cristian Paúl.
 Rosa Elena Tránsito Amaguaña Alba

• * Born in Cayambe on September

10th, 1909 and died on May 10th,
2009

• She was an Ecuadorian indigenous

activist and one of the leaders of
feminism in her country in the
mid-20th century, together with
Dolores Cacuango, led the first
workers' strike in Olmedo.
Woman, indigenous, illiterate,
mistreated and plunged into poverty.

• Tránsito started working from the age of
7 for her parents' bosses, doing
housework because it was considered that
the girl was of an age to wash, sweep,
bring grass, help pass food to the workers
of the hacienda, among others activities.
• His parents were Vicente
Amaguaña and Mercedes Alba.
• Tránsito Amaguaña died on
May 10, 2009, at the age of 99
in the same community where
he was born.
• The loss of a leader at 99,
leaves her people as an
inheritance their unwavering
fight for land, water, education
for their sons and daughters.
Personal information
• Transito had has four children.
• Her husband was alcoholic, abuser and
did not support it to the indigenous
people.
• She separed and went to live with her
mom.
• She participated in the agricultural
strike in 1931, then lived in the hiding
for 15 years.
• Obtained the "Manuela Espejo de
Quito" prize in 1997.
 Congress in the USSR
• She started in community activism
though the Socialist Party.
• He learned to write and read on
countless trips to Cuba, because in
Ecuador the education of indigenous
people was prohibited.
• She was accused of entering with
Soviet weapons and money, forced
to give up activism, but she refused.
Indigenous schools.
•In 1945 he started peasant
schools, founding, in the Cayambe
area, four bilingual schools
(Quechua-Spanish), together with
Dolores Cacuango and María Elisa
Gómez de la Torre.
Famous Phrases:
•1977. “In this time of employers
there was no justice”.
•1977. “We have suffered, we
have struggled, we have fought
everyone”.
•1984. “I have grown old in this
fight”.
Achievements
Achievements
Communes law
Federation of Indigenous people support
approval. provided by indigenous leaders to
President José María Velasco Ibarra for
his return to power.

Organized indigenous
bilingual schools.
Support for the foundation of the Obtained the Eugenio Espejo
Ecuadorian Federation of Coastal National Culture Prize.
Agricultural Workers in 1954.

International representative of Ecuador

during the congress of the Soviet Union and Lived in the small plot that he gave
Cuba. the president Galo Plaza Lasso gave
him.
 ---Vocabulary---
Approval: Aprobación.
Achievements: Logros.
Recognition: Reconocimiento
Coastal: Costera.
Conspiracy: Conspiración.
 Reward: Recompensa.
Leaders: Lideres
Century: Siglo
Iliterate: alfabetizada
Inheritance: Herencia
Peasant schools: Escuelas
Campesinas
Agricultural Strike: Huelga
Agricola