Blanca Margarita Magrassi Scagno (November 29, 1923 – October 9, 2015) was a Mexican women's rights activist, civil and pro-democracy activist, politician and leading figure within the National Action Party (PAN).
[1] She was also nominated as the PAN candidate for the national Senate of the Republic, representing the state of Chihuahua, during the 1988 general election.
In 1986, Álvarez joined with Francisco Villarreal, the Mayor of Ciudad Juarez, and Víctor Manuel Oropeza, the state leader of the Mexican Workers' Party (PMT), and Heberto Castillo, the national President of PMT, began a hunger strike to protest electoral fraud in the gubernatorial election in Chihuahua state.
[2] To call attention to Chihuahua's electoral fraud and end the hunger strike, Blanca Magrassi Scagno and Luz María de Oropeza, the wife of Oropeza, traveled to Mexico City to request a meeting with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid.
[2] Magrassi and Oropeza waited for hours before President de la Madrid agreed to meet with the duo.