Veneranda García Manzano

Veneranda García-Blanco Manzano (1893–1992) was a Spanish teacher, political activist and union leader. In the 1930s, she was a socialist deputy in the Provisional Government of the Second Spanish Republic. After being exiled in France and Mexico after the Spanish Civil War, she returned to Spain in 1976. In 1945, she was a council member of the Women's International Democratic Federation.

Biography Born on 27 April 1893 in Beloncio in the northern province of Asturias, Veneranda García Manzano was the daughter of two schoolteachers. She completed her studies at the Normal School in Oviedo, graduating around 1910.

She soon moved to Mexico where, despite the blindness she developed, she became active in anti-Franco and anti-war activities and in 1947 joined the communist party. She returned to Spain in the 1970s, settling in Oviedo in 1977.

Veneranda García-Blanco Manzano died in Oviedo on 10 November 1992.