Havana, Mar 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuba commemorates today the signing of the Montecristi Manifesto, a historic document that founded, 130 years ago, the beginning of the last war of independence in this Caribbean nation.

Signed by National Hero José Martí, and the Generalissimo of Dominican origin, Máximo Gómez, the text transcends for its political-ideological content.

According to local historiography, the document was entitled The Cuban Revolutionary Party to Cuba, but it went down in history with the name of Montecristi Manifesto for the northern city of the Dominican Republic where it saw the light.

“The revolution of independence, initiated in Yara after glorious and bloody preparation, has entered in Cuba a new period of war, by virtue of the order and agreements of the Revolutionary Party abroad and on the Island, and of the exemplary congregation in it of all the elements consecrated to the sanitation and emancipation of the country…”, so it begins.

The writing gathers the ideas expressed by Martí on nationalism, denounces the colonial order, exposes his marked anti-imperialism and commitment to vindicate the blood shed in the previous wars.

Likewise, it exposes the character and purpose of the emancipating war and the future Republic: how it must be constituted, organized and developed, with the same participation and equal rights and duties of whites and blacks.

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