Encarnación Magaña Gómez

Encarnación Magaña Gómez (Tabernas, 30 November 1921 – Almería, 11 August 1942), also known as Encarnita Magaña and Encarnación García Córdoba, was a Spanish anarchist and libertarian feminist. She was a member of the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth and the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), and served as interim secretary of Mujeres Libres.

Magaña was executed by the Francoists after being tried in the infamous Parte Inglés trial, making her the only woman executed after the Spanish Civil War in the province of Almería.

Biography Magaña was born in Tabernas, in the province of Almería, on 30 November 1921. She became orphaned at a young age following the death of her mother, Dolores Gómez Soriano, a homemaker, and her father, José Magaña Rosa, a farm laborer. Afterward, she was adopted by Rafael García Montesinos and Epifanía Córdoba Tortosa, taking on their surnames.

She developed her political and intellectual commitment during her youth by joining the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth, an anarchist youth organization where she served as secretary and interim secretary of Mujeres Libres. After the end of the war, Magaña began to oppose Franco's regime in an organized manner. She was released in the spring of 1940.

Magaña was executed at the age of 20 in Almería on the night of 11 August 1942, alongside Joaquín Villaespesa Quintana, Cristóbal Company García, Francisco García Luna, Justo Ruiz Pelegrina, Juan Hernández Granados, Diego Molina Matarín, and Francisco Martín Vázquez. She was buried in a mass grave with two of them. She was the only woman executed during Franco's regime in Almería.

The story of Encarnación Magaña and that of the eight others executed with her are recounted in the book "El Parte Inglés. La lucha antifranquista desde la clandestinidad en Almería" published by Círculo Rojo, based on the research by historian Eusebio Rodríguez Padilla.