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- ↑ Album del cincuentenario: de la Asociación de repórters de la Habana : 1902-1952, Asociación de Repórters de La Habana, 1952, p123
- ↑ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
- ↑ Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127