# Argelia Laya

> Argelia Laya was an Afro-Venezuelan schoolteacher, women's rights activist, guerrilla fighter, and politician. A supporter of women's labor, legal, and reproductive rights, as well as various forms of left-wing politics, she was a founding member of the Movement for Socialism, the first woman to serve as its secretary general, and, when she became the party's president in 1990, the first woman to serve as the president of a political party in Venezuela.

*Black Venezuelan educator and women's rights advocate*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/argelia-laya

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Born:** 1926-07-10
- **Died:** 1997-11-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 45.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 7.9 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 7.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 45.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #244

## Sources
- [Argelia Laya](https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argelia_Laya)
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- [Argelia Laya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argelia_Laya)
- [Argelia Laya](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argelia_Laya)
- [Argelia Laya](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argelia_Laya)
- [Aljeriya Laya](https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljeriya_Laya)
- [Argelia Laya](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argelia_Laya)
- [Лайя, Архелия](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F%2C_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18644306)

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