There are 10 Latin Americans on the BBC list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women in 2019

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Tabata Amaral (EVARISTO SA / AFP / Getty Images)

(CNN Spanish) - The BBC revealed on Tuesday its list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019, and there are 10 Latin Americans on the list, including Yalitza Aparicio, Maria Fernanda Espinosa and Francia Márquez.

The list divides women into 6 categories (Earth, knowledge, leadership, creativity, sports and identity) and has been made since 2013. For 2019 the list includes Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Greta Thunberg, Megan Rapinoe, Bella Thorne, among others .

The women selected for this year were asked what the future would be like if it were led by women.

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For our selection we chose the women on the list who were born in Latin American countries: there are two Mexicans, one Ecuadorian, one Venezuelan, one Colombian, one Uruguayan, two Brazilians, one Argentine and one Chilean.

In previous years, in the BBC 100 there have been women from the region such as the writer Isabel Allende, the Venezuelan journalist Valentina Quintero, the president of Chile Michelle Bachelet, the astronomer María Teresa Ruiz, the Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui, the Spanish bullfighter Conchi Reyes Ríos and others.

These are the Latinas in the 100 most influential women of 2019:

1. Yalitza Aparicio - Mexico
Creativity

(ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP / Getty Images)

The BBC highlights that Aparicio, protagonist of Rome, was the first Mexican indigenous woman to be nominated for an Oscar as best actress. “Now he advocates for gender equality, rights for indigenous communities and constitutional protection for domestic workers.

“The ideal future for women is one in which we achieve gender equality, in which we have the same rights and opportunities as men. In the workplace, a future in which our pay is fair and that we are compensated for the value we generate, that would be a good starting point. ”

2. Paola Villarreal - Mexico
Knowledge

Villareal is a self-taught programmer who develops Data for Justice, which according to the BBC helped reverse 20,000 drug convictions with racial prejudice.

The Mexican showed her emotion for being selected in a message on Twitter

Friends! The @BBCWorld announced its annual list of 100 influential and inspiring women and I have the honor of being included, thanks to my work at the intersection of data and justice, along with greats like @AOC @GretaThunberg @mPinoe @YalitzaAparicio 😊 https: / /t.co/zouuGN6oF2

- Paola Villarreal (@paw) October 16, 2019

“There is still time to use data and technology to redistribute power among those who have been historically forgotten. If we do not do so, data and technology will only automate the status quo and all the prejudices and inequities that exist today. ”

3. María Fernanda Espinosa - Ecuador
Leadership

Maria Fernanda Espinosa (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP / Getty Images)

The president of the UN General Assembly is the fourth woman to occupy this position and the first in Latin America to do so. BBC notes that Espinosa has urged the governments of the world to contribute money to curb climate change and their determination to "combat gender discrimination."

“I imagine a future where the efforts of multilateral systems lead us to the equal participation of men and women in politics, and to the protection of the rights of women who daily fight for jobs with equal conditions, and of women and girls who are victims of violence ”.

4. Luchita Hurtado - Venezuela
Creativity

At 98, Hurtado achieved his first individual art exhibition in a public gallery, explains BBC.

Hurtado was born in Venezuela and is the wife of the late artist Lee Mullican. When her husband died, BBC reports, the curators discovered 1,200 of their works and took them to exhibition.

Hurtado's answer about the future is short: "We must think before voting."

It's the FINAL WEEK of I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn! Paintings here from # LuchitaHurtado's 'Sky Skin' series create an explicit link between the body and the cosmos. https://t.co/eMH3KPkKSI pic.twitter.com/t0eA9TGFub

- Serpentine Galleries (@SerpentineUK) October 16, 2019

5. France Márquez - Colombia
Earth

Portrait of France Marquez distributed by Goldman Prize.

Márquez is an environmental activist and led a 10-day women's march to Bogotá to request that illegal mining be halted on his land, which he achieved after more than two weeks of protest. Márquez was awarded the Goldman Price award in 2018, considered a 'Nobel' in the environment, and suffered an attack on his life in May of this year.

“My hope is that human consciousness is rising to understand that we do not own nature, we are part of it, so we must take care of it in the same way that it takes care of us,” says Márquez about the future.

Márquez thanked the recognition of his "struggle as an Afro-descendant woman"

Thank you for this recognition. My struggle as an Afro-descendant woman is part of the collective struggle of racialized and violent peoples for the politics of death that today is at risk of life in the #CasaGrande, on the planet. #SoyPorqueSomos #ElpuebloNoSeRindeCarajo https://t.co/FWWw2Ca5tl

- France Márquez Mina (@FranciaMarquezM) October 16, 2019

6. Ida Vitale - Uruguay
Creativity

The 95-year-old poet, winner of the Cervantes Prize, is the fifth woman to win the award and the last survivor of the Generation 45 movement, the BBC said.

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7. Tabata Amaral - Brazil
Leadership

Tabata Amaral (EVARISTO SA / AFP / Getty Images)

Amaral is one of the youngest congressmen in Brazil and has been called the “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Brazil”. Since Congress defends education, women's rights, political innovation and the sustainable future, says BBC.

"My greatest hope for the future of women in Brazil is that our fight for equal rights, for equal opportunities, be so consolidated that the next generation of girls will be born without knowing the limits of their dreams," he told the BBC about the future.

8. Djamila Ribeiro - Brazil
Identity

Djamila Ribeiro (MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP / Getty Images)

This Brazilian writer was chosen as one of the most influential figures in the Afro-Brazilian women's movement. She is the founder of an editorial that publishes the texts of black writers at an affordable price, says the BBC.

This is what Ribeiro talks about:

“To think about the future, it is first necessary to recognize the mistakes of the past. Only facing colonialism and its consequences, will it be possible to coexist with dignity. ”

9. Mabel Bianco - Argentina
Leadership

The president of the Foundation for the Study and Research of Women (FEIM), Mabel Bianco (EFE / Naiara Bellio)

Bianco has worked for decades as an activist for women's sexual and reproductive rights in Argentina.

“I want a near future without women dying unnecessarily. I hope we will reach a point where women around the world can freely decide about their lives, their bodies and whether they are mothers or not without risking death, and can live without gender-based violence, ”he says.

10. Veronique Thouvenot - Chile
Knowledge

This Chilean doctor was noted for leading the Zero Mothers Die initiative, to prevent the death of pregnant women and their babies. “Help save the lives of women with Zero Mothers Die!” Thouvenot told the BBC.

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