Acracia Sarasqueta de Smyth

Acracia Sarasqueta was born on 14 April 1913 in Panama, into a large family, to a Spanish Basque father, Pedro Sarasqueta Ugarte, and a Panamanian mother. She took her baccalaureate at the Instituto Nacional in 1931, then studied law at the École libre de droit and at the University of Panama, from which she graduated first in her class. A public defender in the Pesé district, she was from 1952 to 1956 one of the first women elected to the National Assembly. She died on 17 September 2000.

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• NovelUna dama de primeraAcracia Sarasqueta de Smyth · 1979not translated into EnglishLiterature