María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba
Mexican independence activist (1778-1850) · Mexico · Died at 72
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Something wrong?María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba, better known as La Güera Rodríguez was a wealthy Mexican woman who is today considered a heroine of the independence movement. She was a longtime friend of Agustín de Iturbide, a royal army officer who later led the movement in New Spain for independence.
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![Juliana, a print that appears in the 1851 edition of the conduct book Presente Amistoso Dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicanas from Ignacio Cumplido.[1] This image has become popularly associated with María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/La_G%C3%BCera_Rodr%C3%ADguez.png/500px-La_G%C3%BCera_Rodr%C3%ADguez.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba, better known as La Güera Rodríguez was a wealthy Mexican woman who is today considered a heroine of the independence movement. She was a longtime friend of Agustín de Iturbide, a royal army officer who later led the movement in New Spain for independence. In the 1840s, she became friends with Frances Calderón de la Barca, whose published observations of Mexico helped fuel interest in Rodríguez's story.
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