Policarpa Salavarrieta

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POLICARPA SALAVARRIETABY SARA JIMNEZ M.

Mara Policarpa Salavarrieta Ros known as La Pola was a Neogranadine seamstress who spied for the Revolutionary Forces during the Spanish Reconquista of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. The historians dont know when she was born exactly, but the they think that was in 1795. The popular version is that she was born in the municipality of Guaduas, Cundinamarca, between 1790 and 1796. HISTORICS DATES

In 1802 a smallpox epidemic broke out in the capital, killing thousands, including Policarpas father, mother, brother Eduardo and sister Mara Ignacia.She was lived with her sister Catalina, and after Policarpa went to Santa Fe of Bogota, where she worked as seamstress enabling her to gain access into the homes of royalists in Bogot, where she obtained information to pass on to the insurgents. She was said to have illegally distilled aguardiente, and that in 1817 she plotted to persuade royalist troops to defect to the republican cause.The great love of her life was Alejandro Sabarain, a rich men and Spanish soldier, who gave the life for Policarpa and his ideals.

POLICARPAS LIFE

- Like many other women, she entered the prisoners cells to take food to the soldiers, where she informed the soldiers of the movements and plans of the rebel troops. - Policarpa also secretly recruited young men to the Revolutionary cause; with assistance from her brother. Together, they helped increase the number of soldiers the insurgency in Cundinamarca desperately needed.REVOLUTIONARY

She was arrested in 1817 and on 14 November was shot dead in the main square, Bogot. She was around 20 years old. She became a national heroine.

When tried by the Viceroy, she was asked if she was a conspirator. She replied "yes" in a loud, clear voice. She was condemned to death with other seven compatriots.CAPTURE AND DEATH

COMMEMORATION

Dont cry for my; cry for the slavery and prison of your depressed compatriots; use you as example my destiny. Raise you and resist the affronts that you suffer with so much injustice.Assassins, you are capable of killing a woman. Tremble; crown your attempt. Soon there will come the one who will avenge my death.Vile soldiers, turn the weapon against the enemies of your mother land. Indolent people. Diverse it would be today your luck, if you knew the price of the freedom! See that though woman and young woman, exceeds me value to suffer the death and thousand more deaths.QUOTEShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux9shW2QhI8http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~afzseb/partner/translation.php?lang=en&translatorId=3&personId=100

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policarpa_Salavarrieta

https://eyesoncolombia.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/policarpa-salavarrieta-colombias-1st-heroine/