Martha Frayde (born 15 August 1920 in Havana, deceased 4 December 2013 in Madrid) was a Cuban doctor, dissident, and revolutionary.
[3] On returning to Cuba from Canada in the early 1950s, she joined the left-wing Partido Ortodoxo.
After striking up a friendship with Fidel Castro, she joined the 26th of July Movement in 1953, becoming a revolutionary guerilla.
[5] She then spent the next few years practising medicine privately out of her home, suffering harassment from the Castro regime and being prevented from leaving the country.
After international outrage over her imprisonment and the conditions of her detention, she was released and exiled to Spain.