The history of the Cuban nation has the merit of being the root, essence and continuity in a people that generation after generation keeps it alive. Without chauvinism or arrogance, pride overwhelms us, when we recall from the genesis, all actions that, in the name of freedom, children of this land have starred.

When the independence struggle began in 1868, the Father of the Nation, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, stated that “Our motto is and will always be: Independence or death. Cuba not only has to be free, but it can no longer be a slave country”, it was as if he would be predicting the way to travel.

This road was pregnant of obstacles and divisions, along ten vigorous years, which ended with the signing of a pact, in turn revoked by the dignity and courage of the Bronze Titan and those who held the conviction not to accept peace without independence.

It was then that, making souls and uniting wills, after a fruitful truce and actions that clearly announced that the supreme purpose of seeing the Homeland free from the colonial yoke had not been renounced, on February 24, 1895, under the leadership of José Martí, the revolution that began in La Demajagua by Céspedes. That war undermined military, political and economic Spanish power in Cuba and demonstrated the strength of the unit that had surpassed the Pitfalls of the first War of Independence.

The restart of the war on February 24, 1895 and its entire trajectory served as teaching for later times from the political-military point of view, especially regarding the need for a single command.

Spain, already defeated, was unable to maintain Cuba as a colony. And it was then when, in 1898, the North American intervention in this country took place, frustrating the independence and freedom fought for 30 years by the Cubans.

As a result of this intervention, described by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as the first imperialist war recorded in the history of mankind, Cuba stopped being a colony of Spain, but it became a neocolony of the United States. The country was tied to the designs of the emerging imperialism (https://bit.ly/2NXSJmU).

However, who said that the truncated dream would not come true? It would take years and it would take a lot more blood to shed, but on January 1, 1959, the chains that deprived us for centuries would be definitively broken, for total freedom. The freedom that we share and enjoy today. Freedom for which men and women gave their lives, their time ... The freedom that is not negotiable and that out of the burning love for Cuba, if necessary, we will return to conquer with the edge of the machete.