Today is August 23rd in 2024. This day is wildly celebrated in Cuba because on August 23rd in 1960, the year after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution that defeated the Batista dictatorship, The Federation of Cuban Revolution was formed by the Cuban women who led the revolution, which is a true fact that is still conveniently denied by counter revolutionaries in the U. S.
The Federation of Cuban Women was created by Vilma Espin.
Yes, Cuban women such as Vilma Espin, starting in January of 1959 in Revolutionary Cuba, made the key decisions on the island...with the total consent of Fidel Castro.
In January of 1959, a few days after chasing the US-backed and Mafia-aligned dictator Fulgencio Batista off the island, Vilma Espin married Raul Castro.
The BIG FOUR leaders of both the Cuban Revolution and in Revolutionary Cuba, left to right above, were: Vilma Espin, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Celia Sanchez. If you don't know that, then you have been misled and lied to.
Cuba women indeed started the anti-Batista Cuban Revolution and many them, in the early days of the revolt, were captured and unmercifully tortured to death by Batista's goons. Such Cuban women included, as shown above, Lidia Doce and Clodimira Acosta. Such female rebel martyrs are still mightily remembered today in Cuba.
During and after the Revolutionary War key women guerrilla fighters and decision-makers included Celia Sanchez and Vilma Espin. They are shown above during the war in this historic photo that was taken by Dickey Chapelle, the greatest female war photographer in history {who was later killed on a battlefield during the Vietnam War}.
But for sure, Vilma Espin and Celia Sanchez not were only key fighters and decision-makers during the Cuban Revolution, but they were also the key decision-makers in Cuba after the triumphant victory over the US-backed Batista dictatorship. After the war Vilma married Raul Castro and they soon had two children, Mariela and Alejandro. The photo above shows Celia at the bedside after Vilma gave birth to Mariela. Vilma was married to Raul Castro while Fidel Castro verily and truly worshipped Celia. Vilma was born in Santiago de Cuba on April 7th in 1930 and she died at age 77 in 2007. Celia was born on May 9th in 1920 in Media Luna, Cuba and died of cancer at age 59 on on January 11th in 1980.
Yes, members of the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon were among the first heroic rebels who arrived in Havana in January of 1959 as Superstars of the Cuban Revolution. It was an honor they richly deserved. Tete Puebla, shown on the left in the above photo, later served a long stint in Revolutionary Cuba as a General in the Cuban Army.
Cuban women started the Cuban Revoluion and they were there at the finish in January of 1959. Moreover, after the Revolutionary War, Cuban women such as Celia Sanchez, Vilma Espin, Tete Puebla, and Haydee Santamaria made the rules and laws that have set the parameters for Cuba since 1959, parameters such as The Federation of Cuban Women.
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