Laura Zachrisson Descamps (26 November 1920 – 10 June 1948) was a Guatemalan women's rights advocate and educator.
Bendfeldt received gunshot wounds, along with Ella Alfaro de Castillo, Esperanza Barrientos, Julieta Castro de Rolz, Dolores Gallardo, Beatriz Irigoyen, Cristina Paniagua, Sally Rau, and Soledad Samayoa.
[7] The following day, the teachers gathered at the cathedral and formed a funeral procession which wound its way to the cemetery and a prayer was offered up by poet, Angelina Acuña.
[8] Shortly after these events took place, in October 1944, Bendfeldt applied for a scholarship to attend university in New York.
[9] In 1945, inspired by successes in suffrage by women in England, France, and United States Zachrisson Descamps joined with Romelia Alarcón, María Albertina Gálvez, Clemencia de Herrarte, Gloria Menéndez Mina, Adriana de Palarea, Graciela Quan and Magdalena Spínola to form the Comité Pro-Ciudadanía to fight for Guatemalan women's suffrage.