Concha Liaño Gil

Concepción Liaño Gil (24 November 1916 – 19 April 2014), commonly known as Concha Liaño, was a Spanish anarchist feminist who participated in the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and was a founder of the Mujeres Libres movement.

Biography Concha Liaño was born on 24 September 1914, in the Parisian suburb of Épinay-sur-Seine, to Spanish parents. Liaño spent her childhood in Barcelona, where she studied at the Lycée Français. "We pretended to be the women's movement of the CNT, but they didn't accept us. Now, so many years later, they accept us. Then machismo, like now, was something genetic. During the war we were treated with great difficulty, but yes, they helped us, with difficulty, but they did. That was the mentality back then".

Following the defeat of the Spanish Republic in 1939, Concha Liaño went into exile in France. Following the Bolivarian Revolution, Liaño became a supporter of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who she described as a "Godsend".

In 1996 she was one of the protagonists of the documentary Vivir la utopía, and that same year the filmmaker Vicente Aranda was inspired by Concha Liaño and the Mujeres Libres to make his film Libertarias, in which one of the protagonists is named after Concha Liaño. However, Concha Liaño was very critical of the film.

Liaño died in Caracas on 19 April 2014.