On his Twitter account, the head of Government referred to the 153rd anniversary of the publication, conceived by Marti together with his friend Fermin Valdes Dominguez (1853-1910), and which contained a irony and humor, rarely present in his work, to depict the realities of Cuba under Spanish colonization.

El Diablo Cojuelo was a four-page printed flyer and its name is related to the homonymous novel by Luis Velez de Guevara, a renowned 17th-century writer.

The publication had as its context the printing freedoms temporarily granted by the Captain General of Cuba, Domingo Dulce, who replaced Francisco Lersundi.

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