In the 2008 presidential election, La Riva received 6,821 votes, the 10th highest vote total.[11] La Riva has also been the director of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and president of the typographical sector of the Northern California Media Workers Union.[12]
In 2010, La Riva was the Peace and Freedom Party's candidate for U.S. Congress in California's 8th Congressional District. Running against Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, she came in third, receiving 5,161 votes, 3% of the overall vote. Also in 2010, La Riva was awarded the Friendship Medal by the Cuban Council of State.[13]
In the 2012 presidential election, La Riva was a presidential stand-in for Peta Lindsay, the PSL nominee for president who was not allowed on the ballot in some states due to her age.[14] La Riva was on the ballot in Colorado, Iowa, Utah, and Wisconsin, and she received 1,608 votes, or less than 0.01% of the total votes.[15]
In July 2015, she was announced as the PSL's 2016 presidential nominee, with Eugene Puryear as her running mate.[16] She attained ballot access in eight states: Vermont, New Mexico, Iowa, Louisiana, Colorado, Washington, New Jersey, and California.[17] She received 74,401 votes in the election, or 0.05% of the total votes.[18]
La Riva was a candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for Governor of California in 2018.[19] She received 19,075 votes in the nonpartisan blanket primary, or 0.3% of the total votes.[20]
La Riva speaking at a protest against U.S. intervention in Venezuela, 2019
La Riva has translated Fidel Castro's book Cuba at the Crossroads (1997) ISBN1-875284-94-X, and produced the documentary videos NATO Targets, Workers' Democracy in Cuba (1996), Genocide by Sanctions: The Case of Iraq (1998), and Let Iraq Live!
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