Carmen Velacoracho de Lara (1880s–1960) was a Spanish-Cuban writer, journalist, feminist, monarchist, and women's rights activist.
She was co-author of El libro amarillo (The yellow book), a pro-feminist manifesto published in Cuba in the early 20th century, which she drafted along with her husband, landowner Pío Fernández de Lara Zalda.
[1] With Digna Collazo, she founded the Feminist Party in 1918,[2] as well as the women's organization Aspiraciones (Aspirations) in Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century.
1928 saw the Havana premiere of El descubrimiento de América (The discovery of America), a film she had directed.
[8] In 1931, together with her daughter, she joined Popular Action, and in 1932 she began the publication of Aspiraciones in Spain, under their joint direction.