For 25 years starting in 1987, her television show, *La Casa de Maria Chuzema", was shown on Puerto Rico's government channel, the PBS-affiliated Canal 6.
[citation needed] As of 2020, Marichal had written some 31 books that have been published, both in Spanish and in English.
[3] Victoria Espinosa directed La Isla Antilla by Marichal, which went on tour to North America in 1996.
[6] During June of 2020, Marichal told Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero that she had recuperated from a bout with COVID-19.
[7] Her son, Miguel, who was, as of 2020, incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States, also suffered from that disease.