Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia

Aída Peláez Martínez (fl. 5 February 1895 – 1923), also known by her pseudonym Eugenio, was a Cuban writer, journalist, suffragist, and feminist activist. She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Amalia Mallén. To this end, she participated in various pro-feminist organizations.

Life and work She was the daughter of Rodolfo Manuel José Jesús Peláez y Hernández and Adela María Aída de la Caridad Martínez y Díaz Morales, and began to write at an early age. After her father forbade her to continue such work, she used the pseudonym Eugenio at the request of her mother. She participated in the Continental Women's Union, an organization which took a leading role, and served in the National Suffragist Party as its vice president and representative in the First Women's Congress (1923). She was the "first woman to be counted as a member of the Governing Board of the Athenaeum of Havana, having been re-elected to it three times." and El sufragio femenino.