Arias contributed material supplies and support to pro-independence fighters, as well as to average Cuban families who were experiencing hardships due to the crackdowns by the Spanish colonial government during the wars of independence.

[3] José Miguel Gómez, a commander of the Ejército Mambí [es] and veteran of the Ten Years' War against Spanish rule, served as the second President of Cuba from 1909 until 1913.

[7] Together with other prominent Cuban women of the time, Arias supported the construction of the Church of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba.

[2] In 1913, her request to name the new church in honor of Our Lady of Charity was approved by Pope Pius X, earning praise from the Catholic writer Martín Leiseca and members of the Cuban media.

[7] Arias was also the honorary director of América magazine, which had been named in her honor by editor-in-chief Clara Moreda Luis, who founded the publication on April 28, 1929.