Warriors Without Weapons

MAMA TINGO

I want to talk about Mama Tingo she was an activist from Yamasa she was born in Villa Mella.

  

when i read this title i thought in people who were defender like:  Ercilia Pepin, Mirabal s siters, Salome Ureña, Juana Saltitopa, and others.

But Mama Tingo is a person who few knows about her.

A brief biografy about Mama Tingo

Her real name is Florinda Muñoz Soriano she was born on november 8th 1921, in villa mella. she was a dominican activist leader and defender of the rural farmig community.

 She worked on her farm for decades with her husband and later a landhowner reclaimed the land. Although she was illiterate, it did not limit her and she fought for other like her who had lost their land. 

In the beginning of 1974, the landowner Pablo Díaz Hernández reclaimed the lands that were occupied for more than half a century by the farmerworkers of Hato Viejo. Díaz Hernández claimed that he had bought the land. Mamá Tingó belonged to the Federation of Christian Agrarian Leagues and headed the fight to obtain benefits for the farmworkers of Hato Viejo, who believed they deserved them because they had occupied and worked the land for more than half a century. Despite her advanced age, she participated fiercely in directing the farmworkers movement.

The landower Pablo Díaz Hernández enclosed 8,000 acres of land with barbed wire and uprooted the famers’ crops. On November 3, 1974, the farmworkers of Hato Viejo appeared in front of the Tribunal of Monte Plata where the case was held, but the landowner Pablo Díaz did not attend the hearing. When Mamá Tingó returned to her farm, she discovered that the foreman Ernesto Díaz (Durín), employee of the landholder, had released her pigs. She went to gather them, but the foreman was hidden and took advantage of the moment and shot her with a shotgun. Mamá Tingó tried to defend herself with a machete, but two shots, one in the head and one to the chest, killed her. She died in Hato Viejo at 52 years old.

She is considered a symbol of the fight for land and an example of a rural woman; because of this, one of the stations on the Santo Domingo Metro system is named in her honor.

                                                                                             Taken from Wikipedia.