Haydee Santamaria

Hayd e Santamar a led a full and painful life. One of a handful of Cuba's female revolutionary leaders, she suffered torture in Batista's prisons. After 1959, she established the world-renowned Latin American literary institution, Casa de las Americas. Its director for 20 years, Hayd e provided intellectual and physical refuge for artists and writers in exile from Latin American dictatorships.

Among those who pay tribute to Santamar a here are Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Mario Benedetti and Roque Dalton.

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"We were born into an unjust system. We are not prepared to grow old in it."--Bernadette Devlin

Rebel Lives books feature writings both by and about individuals who have played significant roles in humanity's ongoing fight for a better world. The series shows the not-so-well-recognized political views of some well-known figures and introduces some not-so-famous rebels. Strongly representative of race, class and gender, these books are smaller format, inexpensive, accessible and provocative.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ocean Press
Published: 07/01/2003
ISBN: 9781876175597
Pages: 125
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.04h x 4.86w x 0.41d