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????https://www.depo.gal/es/-/aqui-faltan... Born in Carril in 1904, at the age of two she emigrated with her parents to Cuba, where she studied in a convent, and later married Sebastián Carcaño, a native of Mugardos. Together they began the proletarian struggles and became involved in the then nascent Cuban communist movement. In 1927 they returned to Galicia with two children. María began working in a canning factory in Vigo, where she took over the reins of the Canners' Union as a militant of the Communist Party of Spain. During the civil war she participated in the Galician guerrilla struggle against Franco's forces until she was arrested and put in prison, where she entered with her young daughter, Dora, who had already been born in Galicia. In 1944, the Cuban consul in Vigo, Luis Bas Molina, helped her get out of prison and return to Cuba with false documentation. Her energy and activism continued there, where she helped the Spanish anti-Franco guerrillas and the Cuban communists against the Batista dictatorship and supported the revolutionary government, which took power in 1959. She collaborated in the literacy campaign, in the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution and in the Federation of Cuban Women. She was decorated by Fidel Castro with the Ana Betancourt Order, received the August 23 Medal from the Federation of Cuban Women and the September 28 Medal, awarded to her by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. In 1989, the life of María the guerrilla came to an end in her home in Havana, a tireless fighter who lived to confront injustices. We spoke about her career with Pilar Cagiao, professor of American History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, author of the book Women and Emigration, member of the Academy of History of Cuba and a leading researcher in the study of migratory movements between Galicia and America from a gender perspective.