Comandanta Ramona (1959–6 January 2006) was an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), a revolutionary indigenous autonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

[1][2] Ramona took control of the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, the former capital of Chiapas, on January 1, 1994 during the Zapatista uprising.

Slowly becoming a revolutionary icon across Mexico, in the tourist markets of San Cristobal, woolen Ramona dolls could be found donned with her balaclava and rifle to boot.

She also addressed a crowd of 100,000 in the central plaza, highlighting the lack of a hospital in San Andrés de Larrainzer and that this meant indigenous people had to travel for 12 hours to get treatment.

Women began to assume leadership roles in autonomous municipalities (MAREZ) and Good Government Councils (JBG), where they mediate disputes, enforce justice, organize cooperatives, and oversee collective resources.

Inspired by Comandanta Ramona's legacy, they have continued to advocate for gender equality through workshops and discussions, emphasizing the importance of solidarity between men and women in achieving social transformation.

[2] Ramona was famous for her almond eyes that peeked through her balaclava, and for her prominent role in the struggle for Indigenous women's rights throughout Latin America.

Vendors in her hometown created doll replicas of Ramona in her honor, wearing traditional Tzotzil attire, a mask, and carrying a gun.

In 2022, a professor from the Autonomous University of Nayarit held a conference, "Comandanta Ramona, the world that remains," organized by the Museum of Women commemorating the 16th anniversary of her death, The professor, Dr. Pacheco Ladron de Guevara, encapsulated Ramona's legacy with her own words; "I want all women to wake up and sow, in their hearts, the necessity to organize because we cannot construct the just and free Mexico, we desire with our arms crossed.