Adelaida Abarca Izquierdo (born 2 November 1923), known by the nickname Deli, was a Spanish Republican political activist.
[2] In 1937, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, Adelaida Abarca Izquierdo, aged only 14, became a member of the Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (JSU) in Madrid.
[2] With the defeat of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War in 1939, the leaders of the Communist Party of Spain had gone into exile.
Many Republican militants were unwilling to accept the new Francoist regime and tried to regroup, creating a clandestine network of information and resistance.
[4] Transferred to the police station in Núñez de Balboa Street, she suffered humiliation and harsh interrogations before being interned in the women's prison in Ventas.
There, she manipulated letters, files and registers, collaborating in Spanish Republican activist and political prisoner Victòria Pujolar's escape.