Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary - Randall, Margaret
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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. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle and friend of Che Guevara. Following the Revolution's victory Santamaría founded and ran the cultural and arts institution Casa de las Americas, which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed Cubans to…mehr

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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. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle and friend of Che Guevara. Following the Revolution's victory Santamaría founded and ran the cultural and arts institution Casa de las Americas, which attracted cutting-edge artists, exposed Cubans to some of the world's greatest creative minds, and protected queer, black, and feminist artists from state repression. Santamaría's suicide in 1980 caused confusion and discomfort throughout Cuba; despite her commitment to the Revolution, communist orthodoxy's disapproval of suicide prevented the Cuban leadership from mourning and celebrating her in the Plaza of the Revolution. In this impressionistic portrait of her friend Haydée Santamaría, Margaret Randall shows how one woman can help change the course of history.
Autorenporträt
Margaret Randall (b. New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer, and social activist. She is the author of more than two hundred books. She has received the Medalla al Mérito Literario, awarded by Literatura en el Bravo in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; the Poet of Two Hemispheres prize by Poesía en Paralelo Cero in Quito, Ecuador; an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of New Mexico; and, the City of Albuquerque's Creative Bravo Award. Randall lives in Albuquerque with her wife, the painter Barbara Byers, and travels extensively to read, lecture, and teach.