Paulina Ana María Zapata Portillo (22 June 1915 – 28 February 2010), daughter of General Emiliano Zapata, was a suffragist who fought for the vote for Mexican women and was the first female federal representative from the state of Morelos.
[citation needed] When she was aged 20, Anita began working for feminist causes and joined the Unión de Mujeres Americanas (Union of American Women),[citation needed] which had been founded in 1934 by Margarita Robles de Mendoza.
She also joined the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR) (the precursor to PRI) and fought for the vote from within the ranks of the party,[citation needed] becoming president of the Asociación Nacional Femenina Revolucionaria[4] the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)'s women's affiliate.
[5] In 1946, she married Manuel Manrique, with whom she had seven children:[1] Isaías Manuel, Beatriz Ofelia, María del Carmen, Julieta Ana María (Fanny), Lina Martha, and twins Hermenegildo and Justino.
[citation needed] Zapata died on 28 February 2010, in Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico.