In some versions, the cockroach is not "Mandinga", but "Mondinga" and in the Cuban and Caribbean version it seems to be "Martina". Additionally, the representation of the main character can also change from country to country, probably depending on the greater influence of Carmen Lyra or Fernán Caballero. Puerto Rican Pura Belpré's version (as told to her by her grandmother) was the first one published in the US, translated as "Perez and Martina: a Puerto Rican Folktale" (1932). In 1936 Saturnino Calleja published another version "La hormiguita se quiere casar", in which the mouse in saved from the broth by the little ant.