Cubans remember the historic Baraguá Protest
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- Published: Friday, 15 March 2019 07:48
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Photo: RHCBayamo, Mar 15.- To recall the historic Baraguá Protest starring Antonio Maceo, on its 141st anniversary, young people from the eastern province of Granma meet on Friday in the rural community of Peralejo, about 17 kilometers from this city.
As it has already become traditional, the act of remembrance is performed in the place where on July 13, 1895, the Bronze Titan led one of the most important military actions of the so-called Necessary War (1895-1898).
Before the bust that perpetuates the memory of the brave Mambi, the new generations ratify their attachment to revolutionary intransigence and the example of Maceo, who on March 15, 1878, flatly refused to accept the bases of the Zanjón Pact, where an agreement was reached peace without independence for Cuba or abolition of slavery.
According to ACN Michel Santiesteban Hernández, head of the ideological department of the Provincial Committee of the Union of Young Communists, the initiative brings together students from the University of Granma, whose headquarters is located very close to the historic site Battle of Peralejo, declared a National Monument in 2015.
Considered by scholars as the most important military action occurred in the lands of Bayamo during the War of 1895, the battle of Peralejo again faced Antonio Maceo and the Spanish officer Arsenio Martinez Campos, about 17 years after the momentous protest.
In his unstoppable desire to achieve total and true independence of the island, again, as in Mangos de Baraguá, the Cuban beat the Iberian. (RHC)
