Consuelo Acuña Iglesias

Consuelo Acuña Iglesias (1876–1937) was a Galician resistance fighter in Spain. She was one of two women from her town who were executed by government forces for harboring fugitives from the Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco's Civic Guard.

Biography Consuelo Acuña Iglesias was born in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, in 1876.

In December 1936, Consuelo was hiding two fugitives: Manuel Méndez Montes, who was married to her sister Manuela Acuña Iglesias, and one of his companions, Juan Manuel Gómez Corbacho. She had put them in a shed near Consuelo's house. After the pursuing Guardsmen received a tip revealing the men's location, there was a shoot-out followed by a fire, which resulted in the death of both men.

Consuelo, her brother Ramón, and Gómez Corbacho's wife, Elvira Lodeiro González, were sleeping at Consuelo's home when the Guardsmen arrived and arrested them. The three were tried for military rebellion in a "brief sham trial" She left behind an unmarried son who was already a teenager, but totally dependent due to a mental disability. After being orphaned, he lived with his aunt, Manuela Acuña Iglesias, who had lost her husband in the shed fire, and her sister and her brother by firing squad. The orphaned boy also lived with Manuel's orphaned daughter, América Méndez Acuña.