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Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado (December 30, 1922 – July 28, 1980) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician, regarded as a heroine in post-revolutionary Cuba. [1] She participated in the assault on Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953, an action for which she was imprisoned along with Melba Hernández.
Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who became one of the most prominent women in Cuba under the government of Fidel Castro. Santamaría and her brother Abel fought beside Castro during the abortive 1953 coup that provided the name for his 26th of July Movement.
Jul 31, 2020 · Haydée Santamaría, one of the first women to join the guerilla struggle in the Sierra Maestra and founder of the Casa de las Americas, remembered the Moncada’s horrors until the last day of her life, July 28, 1980, but these memories only strengthened her resolve.
Haydée Santamaría was a heroine of the Cuban Revolution, a brilliant, strong but unassuming woman among powerful men. One of only two females among 160 males, she helped organize the 1953 attack on Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and fought on its front lines.
Feb 1, 2017 · Haydée Santamaría was the only woman participant in every stage of Cuba's revolutionary struggle. At the July 26, 1953, attack on the Moncada Barracks that catapulted the young revolutionaries into national consciousness, she was captured, tortured, and launched into revolutionary legend when she refused to inform on her comrades ...
She Led by Transgression. Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution.
This chapter explores Haydée’s birth in 1922 and childhood on a sugar plantation in rural Cuba, what life was like for a girl and young woman in that restrictive atmosphere, and how class and gender norms affected her.
