Jenny Estrada

Jenny María Estrada Ruiz (21 June 1940 – 9 February 2024) was an Ecuadorian writer and journalist. She was the first woman to write an opinion piece for El Universo and she created the Julio Jaramillo Municipal Museum of Popular Music.

Life and career Estrada Her parents were Olga Ruiz Robles who was an opera singer and Miguel Estrada Valle who was a doctor of Jurisprudence. She completed her high school studies at the "La Inmaculada" school in Guayaquil. She worked for the publication "El Universo". In 1968 creating a column of "Feminine Opinion" using the nom de plume of María Ignacia. She was the first woman to write a column of opinion for the paper. Two years later she wrote El Montubio - un forjador de identidad about the cowboys who lived on the coast. The award was made by the economist Elizabeth Cabezas Guerrero who was the, President of Ecuador's National Assembly. The presentation was on 9 October which was the 198th anniversary of the independence of the city of Santiago de Guayaquil.

She died at the age of 83 on 9 February 2024.

Works

Las mujeres de Guayaquil, siglo XVI al XX, 1972 Personajes y circunstancias Matilde Hidalgo de Prócel, una mujer total, 1981 Mujeres de Guayaquil, 1984 La epopeya del Aviso Atahualpa (1990) Ancón en la historia petrolera ecuatoriana: 1911 - 1976 El Montubio - un forjador de identidad, 1996 Los italianos de Guayaquil