[3][5][6] Menéndez Mina began her career at the newspaper Nuestro Diario (Our Diary), run by the journalist Federico Hernández de León.

[8] A prolific journalist, she wrote for various newspapers and served as the director of the journal Mujer (Woman) from 1930 and later the magazine Azul (Blue) from 1950.

[2][8][9] Menéndez Mina, like other writers and editors-in-chief such as, Malín D'Echevers,[10] journalist and president of the Association of Intellectual Women of Guatemala,[11] Josefina Saravia,[10] editor of Alma América,[12] and Luz Valle, director of the magazine Nosotras, created space in their publications to promote other regional women writers.

[1][13] The group carried out a national campaign to secure enfranchisement for women from the constituent assembly called in 1945, after the ouster of the dictatorial President Jorge Ubico.

The purpose of the conference was to generate dialogue among the women throughout the Americas on international affairs so that they could inform policymaking and to promote peace in the region.