Magda Portal

She was recognized in the vanguardia poetry literary movement in Peru and Latin America, and she was one of the founders of the APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance) political party.

[2] During this stage of her life as a young woman, she began her literary career by writing poetry and reporting for magazines.

[5] In June 1927, her role in progressive politics made her one of the many people the regime of Augusto Leguía exiled for allegedly participating in communist organizations.

[8] Portal traveled all over Latin America promoting these anti-imperialist and Aprista ideals, proving herself as a political leader.

[10] She continued in her work by assisting with the party magazine, Apra, and by publishing and editing various propaganda pamphlets.

The government of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro followed Leguía's regime, whose goal was to eliminate the Aprista movement and his administration persistently persecuted them.

She wrote and published poetry, books, and newspaper and magazine articles all over South America, many of which conveyed her progressive views on women's rights.

In 1980 Portal was elected the president of the Asociación Nacional de Escritores y Artistas and is still remembered as a literary leader in Latin America.