Carmela Jeria Gómez

[2] At the age of 19, Jeria founded a new feminist newspaper La Alborada (in English, The Dawn), making her the first woman in Chile to become a working journalist.

After a few issues, production paused before resuming in the nation's capital city, Santiago, on November 11, 1906 as a weekly publication and with the words “Feminist Newspaper” on the masthead.

"[1][2][5] Using the printed page, Jeria spread political ideas related to the rights of workers and especially working women, denouncing the different means of "oppression" that restricted them, as well as the importance of female participation in the organization of labor movements.

[2] On May 1, 1908, a new labor newspaper, La Palanca, was launched by Carmela's friend, feminist and activist Esther Valdés de Díaz, a promoter of the Association of Seamstresses.

In her first editorial, the publisher acknowledged the groundbreaking work of La Alborada but noted that Carmela had suffered the “destruction of her home, and an uninterrupted series of troubles" which, in addition to "long and cruel illness", had "forced her to interrupt her noble crusade”.