Established on August 23, 1960, the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) is more than a historical entity brimming with memories and duties, as its heartbeat intensifies among the new generations with multiple tasks to protect emancipation and pay endless tribute to its founder, the frontline combat comrade Vilma Espín Guillois.
With her enormous stature as a freedom fighter on the plains and in the Sierra Maestra mountains as member of 26th of July Revolutionary Movement and of the guerrilla warfare, Vilma embodied the audacity, courage and tenderness of Cuban women, whom she engaged and empowered at a time when their wings were still restrained by patriarchal customs.
The movement to change mindsets and lives in Cuba was always based in love and without detriment to family, seeking and prioritizing the care and education of children, young people and the elderly in rich, harmonious synergy bound to make changes without creating antagonistic contradictions within a united and hatred-free society.
It would seem unimportant to mention this, but it must be recognized now that discrepancy and resentment are stirred up by the ferocious campaigns orchestrated abroad through a media war spanning fifth generations and designed to divide us and prevent our historic achievements from being appreciated.