MARÍA PARADO DE BELLIDO

María Parado de Bellido


(Huamanga, 1761 - Ayacucho, 1822) Peruvian heroin at the time of independence. It is believed that it was natural daughter and all that is known about his father is that it came from the Alto Peru. In 1776 he married in Huamanga Marian Bellido, who had seven sons.
In 1820 of his family joined the Group of Patriots in Paras (Cangallo) with the aim of collaborating with the guerrillas sponsored the Álvarez general de Arenales, which was due to the general José of San Martín strategy to wear down the Royalist Army in the central highlands. Bellido Mariano and his sons acted as couriers of the patriot army in the region of Huamanga, and its main mission consisted to account for the realistic troop movements.

In 1822 the viceroy José de la Serna ordered general Canterac troops quartered in Jauja, is to combat the popular insurrection in Huamanga. Canterac tasked the company under the command of general Carratalá the repress the movement of Ayacucho. It was at this juncture that one of the sons of Maria Parado Bellido Tomás, was taken prisoner and shot to death by the royalists already stationed at Cangallo. This fact motivated that Maria Parado de Bellido integrate the Patriot movement and cooperate with her husband in espionage tasks.

Due to its status as illiterate, he dictated the letters to Mariano Bellido to a trusted friend who, in turn, was responsible for moving the information to the headquarters of the patriotic guerrilla Cayetano Quiroz. As a result, the Patriots were warned in time of the planned RAID of the Royalist Army at the village of Quilcamachay on March 29, 1822, and the town could be evacuated in time.

However, the person through which Maria Parado sent their correspondence was captured that day by priests loyal to the viceroy, which it handed over to the general Carratalá. The general met so activities that Maria Parado, since one of the letters bore his signature. Spanish troops surrounded the House where Maria Parado was accompanied by his daughters and captured it. Brought before the general Carratalá, Maria Parado refused to answer the questions aimed at dismantling the network of information, dismissed offers of reward and not bothered to be advised of your House would be burned down if not collaborated.

His attitude motivated that it was condemned to die fusilada. On May 1, 1822 it was paraded through the area around the plaza de armas of Huamanga, at the time that his crime of treason, is furious and then died before a firing squad in the Pampa of the arc. His remains were buried in the Church of la Merced.

 When independence was strengthened by the general Simón Bolívar, the Liberator gave the daughters of Maria Parado de Bellido a House that had belonged to a realistic soldier in Huamanga, by means of a decree of 1826. Shortly after it was declared a martyr for independence. An important national women of Lima's College today bears his name.