(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Grijalva, María Elena
Veintimilla’s short and tempestuous life express her love, disenchantment and betrayal. Living in a racist society, she dared to defend Tiburcio Lucero, an indigenous person accused of patricide. This stand caused her to be targeted for denigration and slander by the Church and other pillars of official society. As an ultimate act of protest she committed suicide. Dolores Veintimilla was a controversial woman, a strong defender of social equality, and an opponent of the death penalty. Veintimilla’s romanticism was a response and challenge to the religious, racial, and patriarchal ideology of Nineteenth Century Ecuador.
