Opinion 51

Under the pretext... (69 years after the women's vote )

Poniatowska says she witnessed how Elvira Vargas cut the phone lines after sending her note so that no one else (male journalist) would do it... And also of her enmity with Rosario Sansores.

By Claudia Pérez Atamoros

- Excuse me, Elvira, won't you ask me today about women's suffrage? asks General Lázaro Cárdenas almost at the end of a press conference, looking straight ahead at that petite, feisty woman who, meeting after meeting, tour after tour, conference after conference, has questioned him pointedly:

"Mr. President, have you already made a decision to make women's right to vote a reality?".

- Why, Mr. President, it is a subject on which he did not want to risk making a decision," replied the questioned woman.

That "Elvira" was none other than Elvira Vargas Rivera, the first woman journalist to cover the presidential news for a national media (Magdalena Mondragón had done it before, but for a U.S. newspaper) and who, with that answer, took the eight columns in El Nacional and, in a way, reflected her weariness.

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