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Published: Friday, 15 March 2019 09:38

Written by Galia Nápoles Umpierre

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Photo: ArchiveSierra de Cubitas, 15 Mar.- The month of March brings to the memory of the Cuban people many unforgettable moments lived throughout its history. Events recalled as the Baraguá Protest where Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo announces to the Spanish government that the fight will continue, the assault on the lair of the tyrant Flugencio Batista in the Presidential Palace where the student leader José Antonio Echeverría dies and the explosion in the port of The Havana of the French ship La Coubre, remain in the memory.

Today marks 141 years since that March 15, 1878, when the meeting between Maceo and General Arsenio Martínez Campos took place, an act intended to pacify the insurgency with the Zanjón Pact, which excluded the independence of Cuba and the freedom of the slaves known to Cubans as the Protest of Baraguá.
Maceo made official his refusal to lay down his arms, in a heroic attitude to the Spaniards, and made it clear that he knew perfectly the true intentions of Martínez Campo in offering peace, almost ten years after the start of the war.

Today the people remember with pride the virile gesture, the revolutionary intransigence that exalts the Homeland. On numerous occasions, the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz, attended the glorious example of Maceo and the Baraguá Protest, to exalt the patriotism of the Cubans, at a time when the country has been threatened by evoking that "Cuba will be an eternal Baraguá".