Zoe Martínez makes history as the first Cuban elected councilor in Brazil with over 60,000 votes.

The Cuban Zoe Martínez, a political commentator and representative of the Liberal Party (PL), won her candidacy for the city council of São Paulo, Brazil, with a total of 60,272 votes, ranking 13th among the most voted candidates in the recent municipal elections held on Sunday, October 6, according to Folha de Sao Paulo.

Martínez, 25 years old, received strong support from former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro.

The "Cubaninha," as she is known in Brazil, has lived in the South American country since she was 12 years old and officially announced her candidacy in July of this year to the state Military Association.

Martínez is a well-known voice for denouncing the political and social dilemmas of the regime on the island. In fact, he gained significant attention in 2022 when he lectured a Brazilian journalist who refused to acknowledge that Cuba is a dictatorship.

Frequent guest on the Matutino de Joven Pan program, César Calejón refused during the broadcast to acknowledge the reality of the Caribbean nation and received a strong response from Martínez, as reported by the mentioned Rio de Janeiro portal at the time.

"Cuba has nothing to export to the world. The Cuban dictatorship ended Cuba. My family left little by little, first my father, then my mother, then my sister and me… it was a family separation that lasted seven years, fleeing from that dictatorship," the young woman replied to her counterpart who was trying to justify the situation in the territory from a "leftist" perspective.

Then, Martínez advised him to study the topic before attempting to justify the situation of a country whose regime has brought suffering and separation of families.