Ana Carrillo Domínguez

Ana Carrillo Domínguez (1 January 1898 - 1974), popularly known as Anita Carrillo, was a communist activist and a captain in the Spanish Republican Army.

Early life Ana Carrillo Domínguez was born in Cortes de la Frontera, on 1 January 1898. Her family moved to Málaga when she was a child. At the age of 18 she married José Torrealba Ordóñez, a member of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) (PSOE), with whom she settled in La Línea.

Political activity - campaigning for communism Carrillo was active in calling for votes for the socialist Manuel García Prieto in the November 1933 Spanish general election. She was a frequent contributor to his newspaper La Razón (in Antequera). She toured the villages of the Serranía de Ronda and the Valle del Genal calling on women to vote and to fight for social revolution, the republic and for socialism. and closed the 3rd Provincial Conference of the PCE with a speech in June. Her company was integrated into the Mexico Battalion.

With this rank, and as acting commander due to her husband José Torrealba's injuries inflicted on the Estepona front, Carrillo organised the evacuation of the wounded from Málaga Hospital before the imminent capture of the city by Nationalist troops in early February 1937. She was wounded in the Desbandá, the Málaga–Almería road massacre on her way to Almería.

The Republican army decided to withdraw women from the front line and command of troops soon after which ended her military career.