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Antonio Soberanis Gómez
Belizean activist
Antonio Soberanis Gómez (()January 14, &#; ()April 14, ) was an activist in the Belizean labour movement. He found the Labour and Unemployed Association in to demand poverty relief work and a minimum wage.
He was jailed for sedition in
Personal life
Antonio Soberanis was born to Mexican parents in the Belizean village of San Antonio Rio Hondo in Orange Walk. His family had moved to Belize in [1]
He attended boys' school in Belize City and thereafter became a barber.
He owned "The Panama Barbershop," originally located on Handyside Street and then Queen Street in Belize City, which hosted many political discussions until it was boycotted in due to his political activities. He fathered ten children , first to Violet Garbutt married.[2]
Days of the LUA
The decline of the mahogany trade, the Great Depression and the hurricane created terrible living conditions for the working class in British Honduras around W