The Role of Women in the Antibotista Movement

A lot of people know about some of the really famous women formed part of the revolutionary leadership's nucleus and the Sierra Mastra mountains. Vilma Spine, Ayres Santa Maria, there was a little group of women who were extremely close to the male leadership and who were important leaders in their own right. Many of them had come from the urban underground initially. People love to focus on kind of the rebel army, Fidel Castro and Rowell Castro, Che Guevara,. But the urban underground was also extremely important.