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She joined the Anti-Reelectionist Center of Mexico under the presidency of Antonio Herrejón López.

Mexican Revolution

Florinda Lazos León participated actively in the Mexican Revolution.

During the Mexican Revolution or armed stage of the revolution, women together with soldiers stood out in the battefield. These revolutionaries were in charge of the provisioning of medicines, ammunition, clothes, food, etc.

Lazos León, during the huertista usurpation, became a postwoman in the Mexican forces of Zapatista from the division of General Ángel Barrios. She was also a nurse form the Mexican liberating army of the South, with Colonel Prudencio Cassal, standing out because of her implication and self-possesion/strenght. Every woman that joined the Mexican Revolution was known as an "adelita or soldadera", and they defended their homeland and liberty, being one of the first feminist movements.

In 1917 she took part in a women's commission which early that year interceded to pacify the Mexican anticarrancistas rebels of Tiburcio Fernández Ruíz, who were fighting in that state against the Government. She did not only intervene in Chiapas, but also in the national inland battlefields.

Lazos León was the one to deliver the news of Emiliano Zapata's assassination.

Women's suffrage

Florinda Lazos León contributed to the process of political and cultural emancipation of Mexican women.

After the Constitution of 1917, Vetustiano Carranza (President of the Repubhlic) made men and women equal at home. He also stablished that they'd have equial authority and considerations. Along with these initiatives, and in order to achieve women's economical, social and political emancipation, Florinda Lazos León worked side by side with Elvira Carrillo Puerto in the organisation of the First Congress of Working-Class and Peasant Women, fighting for equal opportunities for men and women. Among their revindications we can find: equal salary if the work that's being done is the same, dignifying prostitutes, equal morality for both sexes, foundation of nurseries, dormitories and dining rooms for workers and their children, as well as the right to vote and be voted for elected office.

This congress was celebrated in 1920, in Mérida (Yucatan). It was there where political rights for these segments of society were demanded, as well as lands and tools for rural tasks. Elena Torres was the General Secretary of this congress, and the general committee was formed by Evelina Roy, María del Refugio García, María Teresa Sánchez and Stella Carrasco. They had, in turn, La Mujer (The Woman), published every two weeks and managed by Julia Nava Ruisánchez. This magazine acted as a way of expressing their revindications.

In the debates of this Congress, the Mexican Women Confederation stated their views on these terms:

Feminism is distinguished by its pro-woman work, not matter if they are rich, poor, intelligent or unprepared, etc. A feminist woman doesn't think of a man as it's enemy, but as its partner, and both must act at the same level, with the same rights and obligations. Feminism works for elevating women's position. The feminism tribune its very wide, it's in private and public places, but feminism acquires more personality in feminist trade unions, as most of their members are women. However, this is not the case for trade unions made for men and women, because as it is composed by a greater number of men, they must necessarily to enforce their wills. This is natural human action, not censorship; it's only about women studying and solving their problems in groups of people where they are understood and appreciated. (Hernández, 1992)

In 1924-1924