Marta Fernández Miranda de Batista (née Fernández Miranda; November 11, 1917 – October 2, 2006), also known as "Marta del Pueblo" (Spanish for 'Marta of the People'), was First Lady of Cuba from 1952 until 1959 as the second wife of Cuban president and dictator Fulgencio Batista, who was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution, which forced the couple to flee permanently into exile.
The couple met when Marta was 20 years old and riding a bicycle through a Havana neighborhood and Batista's motorcade accidentally forced her off the road.
They hired a real estate agent the next day and purchased a large riverfront house, where they lived on and off while continuing to influence Cuban politics.
[1] Fulgencio and Marta, their children and close friends fled Cuba in three planes on January 1, 1959, to escape Fidel Castro's forces.
[1][3] Following her husband's death Marta Fernández de Batista moved to West Palm Beach, Florida in the United States.
Her funeral was held at St. Juliana Catholic Church in West Palm Beach, Florida and she was buried in Madrid, Spain, in the cemetery of La Almudena, along with her husband and son.