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Guadalupe Vázquez Luna is a Mexican activist, artisan, and councilwoman representing the Tzotzil people in the National Indigenous Congress (CNI). She is a survivor of the Acteal Massacre.

Personal Life Guadalupe Vázquez Luna was born in 1987, in Chiapas Mexico. Her father, Alonso Vázquez Gómez was a catharsis who organized the prayer days and fasting of her community. Her mother was María Luna Méndez. Both her parents dies in the Acteal Massacre, as well as 5 of her 10 siblings.

Luna continued her studies throughout her childhood. Staying close to her roots, she is an embroider who sells her handiwork in community stores and in San Cristobal de las Casas.

Present Time At 19, Luna developed a relationship with a man that contradicted one of the community traditions s of asking the male member of the house for permission. In doing so, Luna refused to give in to many culture traditions of Male submission. She later separated from the man. Luna is now a teacher and a mother to two children.

Luna was in a documentary named "Lupita. Que retiemble la tierra", translating into "Lupita. Let the earth tremble".