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Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (April 27, 1900 – April 3, 2009) was the widow of a wealthy Cuban businessman who died in poverty, unwilling to leave the island and unable to access her funds because of the US embargo on trade with Cuba. [1]
With respect to reproductive rights, Cuban women have up to two years of maternity leave and free access to abortion. [91] Women head almost 50% of households in Cuba. [91] Sixty percent of Cuban professionals are women. [91] Cuban women also have high representation in the country, with women holding 48.9% of the parliamentary seats in the ...
Alina Fernández Revuelta (born 19 March 1956) [1] is a Cuban anti-communist activist. She is the daughter of Fidel Castro and Natalia Revuelta Clews. [2] She is one of the best-known Cuban critics of the government of Cuba, where she lived until 1993, and her father's and uncle's rule.
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
Referred to by Cuba as "el bloqueo" (the blockade), [59] the US embargo on Cuba remains as of 2022 one of the longest-standing embargoes in modern history. [60] Few of the United States' allies embraced the embargo, and many have argued it has been ineffective in changing Cuban government behavior. [61]
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a speech before the assembly that what is often referred to as the U.S. trade embargo is a “blockade” because the web of laws and regulations ...
By RYAN GORMAN The legendary U.S. spy jailed for two decades in Cuba who was released Wednesday into American custody has been identified. Rolando "Roly" Sarraff Trujillo secretly worked as a CIA ...
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.