[1] Castillo, a proponent of human rights, also played a major role in the formation of Amnesty International's Venezuelan chapter in 1978.

[1] María Teresa Castillo was born on October 15, 1908, in a hacienda, called "Bagre," in Cúa, Miranda State, Venezuela.

[1] In 1934, Castillo emigrated to New York, United States, where he worked in a factory as a seamstress.

[1] They had two children, Miguel Henrique Otero, the current editor of El Nacional newspaper, and Mariana.

[1] In Salou, Catalan province of Tarragona, there is a street named after Maria Castillo.