Elena Fonseca

Elena Fonseca (1930 – December 29, 2024) was a Uruguayan activist, radio journalist, and writer focused on human rights, feminism, and old age. She was a co-founder of the feminist collective Cotidiano Mujer.

Biography Elena Fonseca was born in Montevideo in 1930.

Her husband was a diplomat, so she spent many years living abroad, including in Spain, Canada, and Switzerland. It was the only feminist program on Uruguayan radio. In 2016, Nunca en domingo changed its format and continued as a podcast until 2021.

Fonseca produced the first Spanish translation of Simone Veil's seminal 1974 speech on abortion at the French National Assembly, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the legalization of abortion in France. The translation was published in Le Monde in 2004.

In 2016, she was named an outstanding citizen by the Intendancy of Montevideo.

The activist, affectionately known as Elenota, died in 2024 in Maldonado, at age 94.