Background
Terrero was born on the sugarcane mill "Pina" in eastern Camaguey. Her father, Gerardo Terrero, was the mill"s accountant and her mother was Elvira Serrano.
Terrero was born on the sugarcane mill "Pina" in eastern Camaguey. Her father, Gerardo Terrero, was the mill"s accountant and her mother was Elvira Serrano.
She and an older sister, Ana, studied stenography.
She was the second wife of Cuban President, Carlos Prio, who was overthrown by Fulgencio Batista in a military coup. At the age of 24, she became the First Lady of Cuba. Their youngest daughter was born in the Presidential Palace.
While she was the First Lady, Osvaldo Farrés, the composer of the song Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps), composed the song Sensacion inspired by her.
She and her family went into their first exile in 1952. In 1956, after Batista granted an "amnesty", they returned for a short time until they were forced into exile again at gunpoint.
After Batista was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution (which Prio supported financially). they returned to Cuba in January 1959. They went into their final exile in December 1959, when they realized that Fidel Castro"s government had become a dictatorship.
Her husband, the last constitutionally elected president of Cuba, committed suicide in 1977 and she died in 2010 of pneumonia.