Marianas in Combat: Tete Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's Revolutionary War 1956-58

Brigadier General Teté Puebla, the highest-ranking woman in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, joined the struggle to overthrow the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1956, when she was fifteen years old.

This is her story—from clandestine action in the cities, to serving as an officer in the victorious Rebel Army’s first all-women’s unit—the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon.