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An older Cuban woman in colourful traditional costume poses playfully with her cigar outside the Plaza de Armas. Women in Cuba have the same constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural and social fields, as well as in the family. Cuba is regarded as a regional front-runner in women's rights.
The freedoms that many American women enjoyed made them both the envy of and inspiration for numerous Cuban women. [3] Many Cuban women understood American women through a filtered lens, hearing of them through the stories American tourists would tell. The idea of being able to enjoy these same freedoms as American women was a major motivator ...
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on 21 October 1925, at 47 Serrano Street in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. [10] [3] [11] Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railway stoker, and her mother, Catalina Alfonso Ramos, a housewife who took care of an extended family. [3]
The Cuban regime’s denial of a travel permit to dissident Martha Beatriz Roque ought to give pause to American, Canadian, British and Australian women who visit the oppressive island for fun ...
A Cuban woman will once again shine at Miss Universe for the first time in 57 years. Marienela Ancheta, a businesswoman and model, was crowned at the Milander Center in Hialeah, where the gala ...
Espín and Fidel Castro during the formation of the Federation of Cuban Women, August 1960. Vilma Espín was an outspoken supporter of gender equality in Cuba, [9] but distinctly separated herself and the goals of the Federation of Cuban Women from traditional feminism, insisting advocacy for 'feminine' not 'feminist'. [7]
She was the last Miss Cuba Libre or Miss Free Cuba, a strange and honorable title she will pass down to a young woman chosen in Miami to represent Cuba at the Miss Universe pageant on Nov. 16 in ...
Daína Chaviano (born 1957), Cuban science fiction and fantasy novelist and poet; columnist, editor, translator; now lives in the United States; writes in Spanish and English; Aurelia Castillo de González (1842–1920), writer [2] Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (1847–1938), considered to be the first women to practice journalism in Cuba