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Vilma Espin was born April 7, 1930 in Santiago de Cuba in a rich family. Her father was the largest industrial tycoon.

student years young chemical engineer entered into a revolutionary movement, launched Fidel Castro in 1953 to fight Fulhensio Batista dictatorship.

Parents graduates of the University of Havana seriously scared daughters for the future. It was agreed to send her to study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

No girl again returned to Cuba, and participated actively in the preparation of the uprising on November 30, 1956, reported . She then went into the mountains together with the guerrillas. She meets with Raul Castro at the beginning of 1959 it had gone beyond married.

From those years of guerrilla struggle in the mountains of the Sierra has remained excellent skills of pistol shooting. They say that Vilma Espin easily traveled with ten steps smallest coin.

After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Vilma Espin becoming one of the influential politicians Cuban Politburo member of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and State Council member countries. More than thirty five years, it was led by the Federation of Cuban Women, a vice president Women’s International Democratic Federation.