[1] She also worked as a reporter for Vea magazine from 1948 to 1950, and as a columnist for the newspaper El Siglo from 1960 to 1964, her first article being "La mujer como fuerza política" ("Women as a political force").

[2] In June 1972 she resigned her position as deputy on being appointed by President Allende as Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, a post she held until 2 November.

[4] Within a few days of the coup, the newly established dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet issued decrees under which Baltra, together with other prominent women in the Popular Unity government, were ordered to report to the Defence Ministry under threats of “facing the consequences” if they refused.

[5] Together with others including Gladys Marín, secretary-general of the Communist Youth of Chile,[5] senator Julieta Campusano, and Orlando Millas, Minister of Finance in Allende's government, they remained in asylum at the embassy for nine months.

In 1987 Baltra and Julieta Campusano re-entered Chile clandestinely, crossing the Andes from Argentina on horseback, accompanied by drovers and Argentine communist leaders.

Now on arrival in Chile, Baltra and Campusano presented themselves at the court of justice with the lawyers Enrique Krauss and Jaime Castillo Velasco, who claimed habeas corpus for the women.