En memoria de Gloria Amaya

Melek: Another “payback” appointment by “The O” . . . here’s a good article by Ben...
Gigi: No es por nada, pero — have you all seen the real, makeup free photos of this woman? No airbrush can fix...
Gigi: As the saying goes, it’s torch & pitchfork time, guys — there’s no hope that these...
George Moneo: What an original and fantastic protest! I bet there are some scared employees in Satan’s Hollow...
ElcubanitoKC: And the contraption he used makes it even more Cuban. ¡Se la comió completa!
Val Prieto: Im washing my mouth out with soap as we speak!
Alberto de la Cruz: Not questioning, Val, just deferring to the most expertness, most enlightenedness, most...

By Ziva Sahl, on January 9, 2010, at 7:50 pm

Jose Martí said of the great Cuban mother, Marina Grajales, “Faciles son los heroes con tales mujeres” (It’s easy to be heroes with women such as these).

Gloria Amaya was also such a women.

Surely, one of the cruelest lies ever uttered was the promise made 51 years ago on January 9, 1959:

“I tell the mothers that they will never, because of us, have to weep.”

May God bless her, and may she now rest in peace without tears.

There are wonderful tributes to Doña Gloria Amaya by Marc, here, and Capitol Hill Cubans, here.