April, 2024.- At the 146th anniversary of the historic Protest of Baraguá, Cuban people remind the bravery and dignity of the Major General Antonio Maceo, who refused to accept a peace without independence of the Spanish colonialism.
On March 15, 1878, in Mangos de Baraguá (current province of Santiago de Cuba in eastern part of the island), was carried out the event led by Maceo, also known as Bronze Titan, others high chiefs, mambí leaders and troops under his command.
According to the Cuban Revolution historic leader Fidel Castro, the Bronze Titan rose to the top the patriotic spirit and revolutionary of Cuban people with the disobedience order.
With the iconic phrase of: “No, we don’t understand each other”, to the Spanish Captain General, Arsenio Martínez Campos, Maceo rejected the Zanjón Pact, in which Spain, after 10 years of war, offered the cessation of hostilities without a solution to the colonial situation that raised the Cubans in arms.
That agreement was unacceptable for those who, from the fields of the Caribbean island, maintained the will for the definitive liberation of the country and were disposed to go on the war actions.
The distinguished revolutionary inspired the struggle of future generations through his irrevocable decision to fight.
The Caribbean nation celebrates this date as sample of its indomitable nature, facing every day the United States’ attacks that try to choke the national economy and lead to a social outbreak.
