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Achieving notoriety as one of the two women who participated in the armed attack that sparked the Cuban Revolution, Hayd e Santamar a later directed the world-renowned literary institution Casa de las Am ricas, embracing culture as a tool for social change and providing refuge for exiled Latin American artists.

About the Author

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Haydee Santamaria 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 Casa de las Americas. Its director for 20 years, Haydee provided intellectual and physical refuge for artists and writers in exile from Latin American dictatorships.