Florida, April 3 – Through Che Guevara’s farewell letter we knew about the house of María Antonia, that Cuban woman who emigrated to Mexico in the early 50’s of the last 20th century and became the hostess of the young people who, along with Fidel Castro, marched to the Aztec nation with the dream of being free or martyrs in 1956.
A brother of the Cuban woman knows and helps Ñico López and Calixto García, then introduces them to María Antonia González Rodríguez, and from then on her home would be the home of the exiled Moncadistas in Mexico, and there, Fidel met the Argentinean doctor Ernesto Guevara, who after hours of dialogue enlisted in the future expedition to overthrow the Batista tyranny.
During the preparations for the Granma expedition, Maria Antonia kept her collaboration with the Cuban revolutionaries, she was arrested with them and to evade the persecution of corrupt agents of the Mexican Secret Service, sold to Batista, she changed her residence on more than one occasion.
After January 1, 1959, Maria Antonia maintained her loyalty to Fidel and the Cuban Revolution until her death on April 3, 1987.
