Juan Ortiz Jiménez

Illustrates the dilemma of a sugarcane worker who has a child out of wedlock without his wife’s knowledge.

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.