Raúl Castro
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Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician, general, and revolutionary who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, f
Castro in 2015
Castro carried by Fulgencio Batista in 1938. In 1959, Castro and his brother would topple Batista from power.
Image from Oriente newspaper from 30 July 1953 after the capture of Castro
Castro in 1959
Vilma Espín
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Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois was a Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer. She helped supply and organize the 26th of July Movement as an underground spy, and took an active role in many
Raúl Castro
…four men on 24 February 1996. The indictment was unsealed and announced by the Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on 20 May 2026. Castro married Vilma Espín, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineering student and the daughter of a wealthy lawyer for the Bacardi rum company, on 26…
Espín c. 1958
Raúl Castro, Vilma Espín, Jorge Risquet and José Nivaldo Causse (1958)
Espín and Fidel Castro during the formation of the Federation of Cuban Women, August 1960
Espín's guerrilla uniform