Victoria Madrigal

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Victoria Madrigal Araya was a Costa Rican teacher and suffragette. She was the daughter of José Madrigal and Rosa Araya.{{cite web|title=Costa Rica, Catholic Church Records, 1595-1992 (1926 marriages)|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6DH9-LV1|website=Family Search|publisher=Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|accessdate=9 August 2015|location=San José, Costa Rica|page=268|language=Spanish}} Her sister, Vitalia Madrigal (died 21 April 1927), was also a teacher and suffragette.{{cite journal|last1=Valembois|first1=Víctor|title=René Van Huffel, un previlegiado puente con la cultura de habla francesa|journal=Educación|date=2004|volume= 28|issue=núm. 2|pages=57–73|url=http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/440/44028204.pdf|accessdate=9 August 2015|publisher=Universidad de Costa Rica|location=San Pedro, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica|language=Spanish|issn=0379-7082}} In 1919, Madrigal participated in a teacher's strike led by Ángela Acuña Braun against the administration of President Federico Tinoco Granados for labor law violations. Others who participated were Matilde Carranza, Ana Rosa Chacón, Lilia González, Carmen Lyra, Vitalia Madrigal, Esther De Mezerville, María Ortiz, Teodora Ortiz, Ester Silva and Andrea Venegas.{{cite journal|last1=Solano Arias|first1=Marta E.|title=A 90 años de la fundación de la Liga Feminista Costarricense: los derechos políticos|journal=Revista Derecho Electoral|date=January–June 2014|issue= 17|pages=357–375|url=http://www.tse.go.cr/revista/art/17/solano_arias.pdf|accessdate=2 August 2015|publisher=Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones República de Costa Rica|location=San José, Costa Rica|language=Spanish|issn=1659-2069}} The main issue for teachers was that their salaries were low and that was compounded because they were paid only in vouchers, which were often depreciated and redeemed at half their value. During the protest, the office of La Información, the official government newspaper, was burned down by the teachers.{{cite web|last1=Rodríguez S|first1=Eugenia|title=Participación Socio¬política Femenina en Costa Rica (1890 – 1952)|url=http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/viewFile/6254/5956|publisher=Universidad de Costa Rica|accessdate=9 August 2015|location=San José, Costa Rica|language=Spanish}}

In the 1920s Madrigal, who was teaching at a school which bore her name, married René Charles Van Huffel (29 January 1900 Brussels, Belgium—after 1970), an academic and French instructor. They had one child, a daughter, Fanny Huguett Victoria Van Huffel Madrigal in Alajuela, Costa Rica in 1926.{{cite web|title=Costa Rica Civil Registration, 1860-1975|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT53-LMD|website=Family Search|publisher=Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|accessdate=9 August 2015|date=1926}} Madrigal died in 1929 in Alajuela,{{cite web|title=Costa Rica Civil Registration, 1860-1975|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT5S-2Y7|website=Family Search|publisher=Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|accessdate=9 August 2015}} the same year her husband secured his naturalization.