Actually her name is Rebeca Eunice Vargas. And that plain name is also easier to sync with her homeland. That's because the poet, rapper and sociologist was born in Guatemala City in 1984, experienced the end of the civil war and its aftermath in Guatemala as a child, and then worked as a young woman in initiatives that sought to expose the atrocities of the military dictatorship.
Theatre, literature and music served Vargas as adequate media. The declared feminist also declared war on machismo in Central America, for example as a hip-hop teacher in poorer districts of Guatemala City, where she showed young women equal opportunities in the thoroughly sexist hip-hop culture. Rebeca Lane made headlines around the world as part of the "Somos Guerreras" association, a group of female rapper friends who spent two months on the road in Central America and Mexico. As warriors in the service of women. August saw the release of "Alma Mestiza," the activist's new album, which prompted the Guardian to state, "Hip-hop is far from dead, it's just learning Spanish."
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