After the 1948 coup in Venezuela, Parra joined the fight against the military junta and the Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship, during which she was imprisoned and tortured.

On November 24, 1948, President Rómulo Gallegos was overthrown by a coup, after which Parra joined the resistance against the de facto government.

[1] On February 12, 1951, she was arrested by the Dirección de Seguridad Nacional "for inciting the students in the Youth Day demonstration in the Plaza Bolívar de Barquisimeto [es] (Plaza Bolívar in Barquisimeto), to strike and disorder."

[1] With the arrival of democracy in Venezuela in 1958, Parra served as a representative of the Iribarren Municipality between 1958 and 1968, an entity that she came to preside over.

The marriage broke up and she later married the Tocuyano doctor, Fortunato Orellana Anzola.