Ubre Blanca produced 109.5 liters of milk on a single day in January 1982– more than four times a typical cow's production.

[4] Castro referred to Ubre Blanca's prodigious output in speeches as evidence of communism's superior breeding skills, and the cow's achievements were often printed in Cuban newspapers.

[5] To many Cubans, Ubre Blanca evokes memories of the era before the so-called "Special Period"[6]– the economic collapse that followed the demise of the Soviet Union, Cuba's main benefactor, beginning in 1989.

Taxidermists stuffed Ubre Blanca and put the body in a climate-controlled glass case at the entrance to the National Cattle Health Center, a 45-minute drive from old Havana, where it still remains.

[1][4][6] In the poem Ganadería, Cuban exile and poet Ricardo Pau-Llosa retells the story of Ubre Blanca as an allegory of Castro's rise to power.