Rosario Hernández Diéguez

Rosario Hernández Diéguez (nickname, A Calesa; Vigo, 17 February 1916 – Vigo, 3 September 1936) was a Spanish Galician newspaper hawker and trade unionist, affiliated with Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). Raped, mutilated, tortured, she died young, a victim of Franco's repression. A street in her hometown bears her name.

Biography Rosario Hernández Diéguez was the daughter of an anarchist railwayman. Her home was on Calle Pino in Vigo. Everyone knew her by her nickname, "A Calesa". reading out the news in the newspapers. Insolent, rather than submissive, devoted and obedient, she was shaved, raped, mutilated, and murdered in a Falange barracks. Her body was anchored to an iron grill

Legacy

A street in Vigo's Coutadas area, between the Os Rosais institute and Travesía de Vigo bears the name Rosario Hernández Diéguez.

In 2021, the story, "Rosario Hernández é un lugar", written by Marcos López Concepción, won the VIII Vigo Histórico Contest, organized by .