On his Twitter account, the president wrote that ·Baraguá is a name that says all: resistance, dignity, courage, and a man who is the symbol of the nation that does not surrender, 145 years after Maceo’s Protest.”

The historic dissent took place on March 15, 1878, in Mangos de Baraguá, eastern Santiago de Cuba province, led by Maceo and other senior chiefs, officers, and eastern troops under his command.

In words by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, the event forwarded the patriotic and revolutionary spirit of the Cuban people to its highest point.

With Maceo’s laconic phrase “No, we do not understand each other” to Spanish General Arsenio Martinez, the Pact of Zanjón came to an end, in which Spain, after ten years of war, ceased hostilities without a solution to the colonial situation that rose up the Cubans in arms.

That agreement was inadmissible for those who, from the Cuban countryside, maintained the will for the definitive liberation of the country and were willing to continue the war.

Upon proclaiming his irrevocable decision to continue fighting, the distinguished revolutionary dragged chiefs, officers, and soldiers and inspired the struggle of later generations.

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