Isabel Arrúa Vallejo or Vallejos (1913/1914-2006) was a Paraguayan teacher, diplomat and feminist. She was Paraguay's first woman with diplomatic rank, as attaché of the Embassy of Paraguay to Brazil from 1945 to 1948. [1]
Isabel Arrua Vallejos was born in Villeta. [2] (Some sources give her year of birth as 1913, [3] and others give it as 1914. [2]) She became a teacher, and also worked as a nurse on the front line in the 1932-35 Chaco War. [4]
In 1942 she entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [2] She also worked at the Embassy of Paraguay in Washington, D.C., from 1949 to 1950. [4]
An associate of Federico Chávez, Vallejo was a founder-member of the Paraguayan League for Women's Rights, established in 1951, and edited the League's newspaper, El Feminista. [5] She was a national deputy and delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women. [2]
She died in Asunción in 2006. [2] In 2012 her life was celebrated in the Paseo de Ilustres, a public space in Villeta dedicated to the memory of ten people from the city. [3]