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418: 486: 1171: 531: 63: 632: 385:(one of the first women in Cuba to study this subject). While attending Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, she played volleyball, tennis, and was a soprano in the University Choir. In university, Espin met her mentor Frank Pais in a university group called Oriente Revolutionary Action (ARO), which was responsible for the assault on the Moncada barracks. After graduating, her father encouraged her to attend 1211: 517:, and remained in that position until her death in 2007. The organization's primary goals were educating women, giving them the necessary skills to seek gainful employment, and above all encouraging them to participate in politics and support the revolutionary government. In 1960, when sugar mills and cane fields were under attack across Cuba shortly before the 521:
invasion, the Federation of Cuban Women created the Emergency Medical Response Brigades to mobilize women against counter-revolution. The Cuban government and the Federation encouraged women to join the labor force, even going so far as to pass the Cuban Family Code in 1975, a law mandating that men
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and representatives of the 26th of July Movement in 1957. Espín, as both a revolutionary leader and the daughter of a Bacardi executive, told Kirkpatrick that the revolutionaries only wanted "what you Americans have: clean politics and a clean police system." She also acted as an interpreter for an
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the day after her death. Thousands of Cubans paid their respects in a receiving line at the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana. Raúl Castro was in the receiving line, but Fidel Castro was not present. The Cuban government released a statement praising her as "one of the most relevant fighters for
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was opened in Havana in April 2013. Espin founded the Frente Continental de Mujeres Contra la Intervención (Continental Women’s Front Against Intervention, FCMCI) and the Regional Center of the International Democratic Federation of Women for the Americas and Caribbean.
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Espín headed the Cuban Delegation to the Congress of the International Federation of Democratic Women in Chile in September 1959. She also headed the Cuban delegations to subsequent Conferences on Women, praising them as "invaluable to women in developing countries."
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Torres Santana, Ailynn, and Michelle Chase. "Vilma Espín (1930–2007): Forging a New Woman within the Cuban Revolution." Springer International Publishing, Cham, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13127-1_25.
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at 4:14 p.m. EDT on 18 June 2007, following a long illness. An official mourning-period was declared from 8 p.m. on 18 June until 10 p.m. on 19 June. A funeral ceremony was held at the
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in July 1953 and release from prison in 1955. Espin acted as a messenger between the Julio 26 Movement in Mexico and Pais back in Cuba. She then went on to assist the revolutionaries in the
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in 1957, which served the dual purpose of spreading news of the revolution and assuring Cubans and the international community that Batista's claims of Castro's death were false.
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led her to become a leader of the revolutionary movement in Oriente province. Espín met the Castro brothers who had relocated to Mexico after their failed armed attack on the
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women's emancipation in our country and in the world." Her body was cremated, and her remains rest in the Frank País Mausoleum, Municipio II Frente in the province of
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as an underground spy, and took an active role in many branches of the Cuban government from the conclusion of the revolution to her death. Espín helped found the
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to complete her post-graduate studies in the hopes that visiting America would dissuade her from becoming involved in
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activity. When she finally acquiesced, her brief academic career at MIT left her with even more animosity toward the
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allowed her to represent the revolutionary movement on an international scale. Pepín Bosch, an executive of the
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in 1976. In addition to her roles within Cuba, Espín also served as Cuba's representative at the
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must help with household chores and childcare to lighten the workload for working mothers.
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Returning home, she became more involved with the opposition to the dictator
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Raúl Castro, Vilma Espín, Jorge Risquet and José Nivaldo Causse (1958)
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for 45 years, initially taking on the role as the sister-in-law to
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mountains after the 26th of July Movement's return to Cuba on the
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and promoted equal rights for Cuban women in all spheres of life.
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from 1965 to 1989. She also held many other roles in the
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Ferrer Gómez, Yolanda; Aguilar Ayerra, Carolina (2015).
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Index

Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois
Spanish name
surname

First Lady of Cuba
Fidel Castro
Raúl Castro
María de la Caridad Molina
Lis Cuesta Peraza
Federation of Cuban Women
Yolanda Ferrer Gómez
National Assembly of People's Power
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
Secretary of State
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba
Havana
Cuba
Raúl Castro
Mariela
Alejandro
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lenin Peace Prize
Cuban
revolutionary
feminist
chemical engineer
26th of July Movement
Federation of Cuban Women
Santiago de Cuba

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