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This is a list of women artists who were born in Cuba or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Ana Betancourt, first to campaign for equal rights for Cuban women, in 1868 during the Ten Years' War; Andrés Rivero Agüero, Cuba's prime minister from March 1957 to March 1958; Anselmo Alliegro, acting president of Cuba for one day (1–2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country
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
In 1992, Montes was selected for the DIA's Exceptional Analyst Program, and she later traveled to Cuba to study the Cuban military. [3] Prior to her arrest, she lived in a two-bedroom co-op apartment in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. [3] Montes advanced rapidly through the ranks at the DIA and became its most senior Cuban ...
José Agustín Quintero, Cuban born Confederate diplomat to Mexico, based in Monterrey; Loreta Janeta Velazquez (1842 – c. 1902), aka Lieutenant Harry Buford, Cuban-born woman who claimed that she masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the American Civil War
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]
she said in an address to the Second National Women's Congress in 1925. [13] She served on an international women's commission, [14] represented Cuba at the First International Feminist Conference in 1926, [1] and was a member of the Women's Advisory Committee of the Institución Hispano-Cubana de Cultura. [15] She also opposed bullfighting in ...
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.