Francisca Ramírez

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Francisca Ramírez Tórrez
Ramírez in 2016
Born	1977 (age 46–47)
Citizenship	Nicaragua
Occupation(s)	Farmer, activist
Organization(s)	National Council for the Defense of the Land, Lake and Sovereignty
Movement	Peasants rights

Francisca Ramírez Tórrez (also known as Doña Francisca or Doña Chica,

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the concession for the canal and other infrastructure projects.

Early life

Francisca Ramírez Tórrez was born in 1977 in a small rural community then known as Somoza in

Somozas regime program of relocating farmers with small orchards in the region to make way for burgeoning cotton crops.^[1] These farmers, including Ramírez's family, were moved to so-called "colonies" on the Caribbean coast, at the time virgin forest.^[1]

Ramírez's parents had five children, but her father left during the war when she was seven years old, after which she was charged with helping her mother raise her siblings.[1] She left school after the third grade and at 12 she began traveling to Managua to sell crops for local farmers.^[1]

Activism

inter-oceanic canal and other infrastructure projects.^[2]

As part of this organizing, Ramírez served as head of the environmental and peasants rights organization, the National Council for the Defense of the Land, Lake and Sovereignty (Consejo Nacional para la Defensa de la Tierra, Lago y Soberanía). Per its bylaws,[2] the Council for the Defense of the Land functions as a non-partisan and self-mobilized grassroots movement, independent of political party or NGO affiliation,^[3] and Ramírez personally does not belong to a political party; she has refused offers of office in exchange for joining a party.^[1] She has also declined to participate in closed-door meetings with President Daniel Ortega, and turned down high-priced buyouts for her land offered in exchange for ceasing her activism.^[1]

In December 2016, Nicaraguan National Police seized two of Ramírez's work vehicles.^[4]

In the April

2018 protests in Nicaragua, Ramírez with other leaders of the peasants movement issued a statement of support for the youth and self-organized grassroots protesters and called for a general strike.^[5]

Recognition

In 2016, Forbes Mexico named Ramírez one of the 50 most powerful women in Central America.^[6]

In 2017, Ramírez was a runner up for the Front Line Defenders award for human rights defenders.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Ramírez, Sergio (28 April 2017). "Doña Francisca, el azote contra la Nicaragua de Ortega". El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b Cerda, Arlen (14 March 2016). "A Leader in the Struggle to Stop the Nicaragua Canal Project". Confidencial. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
^ Salazar, Maynor (January 30, 2018). "Francisca Ramirez: "Ortega and Aleman Want to Destroy Us"". Havana Times. Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b Vasquez, Vladimir (October 20, 2017). "Nicaragua Anti-Canal leader Francisca Ramirez: "Ortega's Gov. Treats Us Like Criminals"". Havana Times. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
^ Romero, Elizabeth (24 April 2018). "Movimiento campesino llama a paro nacional hasta que cumplan demandas". La Prensa (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
^ "¿Quiénes son las mujeres más poderosas de Centroamérica? Aquí la lista". Forbes México (in European Spanish). 22 July 2016. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2018.

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Early life

Activism

Recognition

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References