Electa Arenal

[4] Her mother was part of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (English: "People's Graphic Workshop") and was within the Mexican artistic circle of the twentieth century.

[5] As a child she lived between 1941 and 1945 (during a portion of World War II) in the Soviet Union, along with her mother and sister, due to political reasons.

The family returned to Mexico and Arenal entered school at Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (also known as "La Esmeralda").

[6] Arenal returned to Mexico in 1965, and started working with artist David Alfaro Siqueiros mural team.

[2] She died on June 12, 1969, when she fell from a scaffold while assisting muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros in the making of the mural Marcha de la Humanidad en la tierra y hacia el Cosmos (English: "March of Humanity on Earth and towards the Cosmos") at Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros in Mexico City.