Of long trajectory and fruitful revolutionary life, from a very young age she stood out for her political ideas. Together with her husband, the also revolutionary fighter Osvaldo Sánchez Cabrera, she carried out different tasks assigned by the Popular Socialist Party, first, and later by the 26th of July Movement.

She was the founder in 1960 of the Federation of Cuban Women, where she held high positions in its national leadership and was the first national director of the Children's Circles, an institution for which she fought with tenacity as she understood its strategic value in terms of a greater incorporation of women in the economic and social life of the country.

Osvaldo Sánchez Cabrera. Born in the town of San Antonio de los Baños, then Havana province in 1912, in his revolutionary work as a communist militant he directed the party's special commission for intelligence matters in the battle against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As a combatant of the Rebel Army he participated in the battle of Santa Clara. After the revolutionary triumph he was one of the founders of the State Security Organs. He died on January 9, 1961 when he had an accident in the light aircraft he was flying from Oriente province to Havana.

Popular Socialist Party.

It was the successor of the first Communist Party of Cuba, which existed illegally between 1925 and 1933. It was characterized as a party very close to the Cuban working class and fought for economic and social improvements for the workers.  The party opposed the Batista dictatorship. After the triumph of the Revolution, it contributed to the development and defense of the revolutionary process. In June 1961, together with the 26th of July Movement and the 13th of March Revolutionary Directorate, it founded the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations.

Federation of Cuban Women (FMC).

It is an important mass organization that groups and represents Cuban women. Created on August 23, 1960, its President was Vilma Espín. The organization develops policies and programsaimed at achieving women's full rights and equality at all levels of society. Among its objectives aresystematic attention to the training and welfare of the new generations.