.... The chapter ends with a detailed description of Haydée’s trial, from her viewpoint as well as that of a young reporter who covered it. Readers also share her experience of imprisonment. Moncada Fidel Castro torture Melba Hernández loss ...

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... Haydée Santamaría was one of the great heroines of the Cuban Revolution. Throughout her life she was tormented by memories of being brought her brother’s eye and lover’s testicle following the attack on Moncada Barracks. The regime wanted to make her divulge Fidel’s whereabouts. She defied her...

... After Moncada, the trials, imprisonment and finally amnesty for Fidel and the small group of men who survived the baptism of fire, revolutionary war was the logical next step. This chapter focuses on Haydée’s participation in that war. It describes her role as one of a very few women...