Teresa Villarreal

Teresa Villarreal González in Lampazos de Naranjo, (born 1883 Nuevo León Mexico – died, date unknown San Antonio, Texas), was an active revolutionary labor and feminist organizer, who supported the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) during the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1917.

[1] Her father, Prospero Villarreal Zuazua, founded the Society of Lampazos Workers, Nuevo León, Mexico in 1887 and immersed the family in political activity from an early age.

She was forced to flee Mexico in April 1901,[2] with her father, sister and brothers to Texas because of repression of their activity by the Diaz regime.

Here they developed friendly relations with U.S. organizations with whom they shared interests, such as the Socialist Party, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

The sisters also made public speeches alongside Mother Jones demanding the release of Mexican revolutionaries imprisoned in San Antonio.