Etelvina Villanueva y Saavedra (1897–1969) was a Bolivian poet and educator. In 1923, María Sánchez Bustamante organized the first feminist group in Bolivia El Ateneo Femenino with the goals of attaining civil and political equality as well as furthering their artistic growth. Charter members were artists, journalists, teachers and writers and included de Alberti, , de Sánchez, (who would later marry to Betachini), de Cañedo, , Emma Pérez de Carvajal, , Ana Rosa Tornero de Bilbao la Vieja, , and Etelvina Villanueva y Saavedra. They organized their own journal "Eco Femenino". From its inception, Tornero ran the magazine printing literary submissions and articles on feminism.