Find a Grave Irene Hernandez de Jesus (1958-2021)

Find a Grave Irene Hernandez de Jesus (1958-2021)
Irene Hernandez de Jesus
Birth 20 Oct 1958
San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla, San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla Municipality, Oaxaca, Mexico
Death 4 Apr 2021 (aged 62)
Burial Details Unknown
Activist and Politician

He was a Mexican mixe teacher, activist and politician.

She was a pioneer and president of women’s political participation in the Mixe region of Oaxaca in Mexico. After holding other community positions, the assembly of the municipality of San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla elected her as municipal president for 2007, becoming the first female municipal president of Ayutla and the entire Mixe region.

Irene Hernandez de Jesus Grave Site

Before occupying the municipal presidency of Ayutla, she held the position of treasurer in the municipal administration and was a speaker at the First Regional Meeting of Mixes Women
organized in Ayutla in 2005.

Find a Grave Irene Hernandez de Jesus (1958-2021)

In 2017, she added to her activism the claim for the attacks against the Ayutla water supply, as a result of the existing border conflict with the municipality of Tamazulápam del Espíritu Santo.