To love and change history
Some loves burned alongside a revolution. Bolívar and Manuela Sáenz, Frida and Diego, the Peróns: couples who fused desire with politics and left a mark on the history of Latin America.
The elephant and the dove
The two great artists of post-revolutionary Mexico, bound by art and politics and divided by infidelity, who loved and wounded each other until Frida's death.
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The Liberator of the Liberator
The Quito-born revolutionary who left her husband to fight and love alongside the Liberator, saved his life in 1828, and earned the title "Liberator of the Liberator."
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A hundred sonnets for a secret lover
The secret lover who became wife, nurse and guardian of the Nobel laureate's legacy, and the muse of "100 Love Sonnets" and "The Captain's Verses."
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Don't cry for her, Argentina
The colonel and the radio actress who became Argentina's most powerful political couple; Evita championed the descamisados and women's suffrage, and died of cancer at 33.
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The burning letters of an emperor
Napoleon's passionate, jealous letters to Joséphine de Beauharnais; he divorced her for lack of an heir, but by tradition her name was on his lips at death.
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Love and revolution in Santa Clara
The Cuban fighter who battled alongside Che in the taking of Santa Clara and became his wife; she stayed in Cuba raising their children while he left to make revolution on other continents.
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Make love, not war
The Beatle and the conceptual artist whose love became peace activism, their "bed-ins" a worldwide political performance.
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Partners in the dream
The civil-rights leader and Coretta Scott, singer and activist: a partnership of love and struggle. After Martin's 1968 assassination, she devoted her life to guarding his legacy.
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Fifty-six years of love and struggle
The Black actor-activist couple married for 56 years, friends of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and a benchmark of Black American love and commitment.
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They loved and fought for freedom
The leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares, the great refuge of self-liberated enslaved people in Brazil: warriors and lovers who resisted the slave empire side by side.
Read the storyLa Pola and her love, shot for independence
The seamstress and patriot spy known as "La Pola" and Alejo Sabaraín, the soldier she loved: the incriminating papers found on him gave her away, and the Royalists shot them on the same day, making them martyrs of Colombian independence.
Read the storyThe revolutionary love that fell on a Mexico City street
The Italian photographer of post-revolutionary Mexico and the young exiled Cuban student leader: they loved for a few months within Frida and Diego's circle, until Mella was shot dead while walking arm in arm with her in the open street.
Read the storyManuela Sáenz, the Quito-born revolutionary who loved and fought alongside Simón Bolívar. In 1828 she confronted the assassins who came to kill him so he could escape through a window, earning that title.