Cubans recall signing of Montecristi Manifesto 130 years ago

Havana, Mar 25 (Prensa Latina) Cuba commemorates right this moment the signing of the Montecristi Manifesto, a historic doc that based, 130 years in the past, the start of the final conflict of independence on this Caribbean nation.

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

In line with native historiography, the doc was entitled The Cuban Revolutionary Celebration to Cuba, but it surely went down in historical past with the identify of Montecristi Manifesto for the northern metropolis of the Dominican Republic the place it noticed the sunshine.

“The revolution of independence, initiated in Yara after wonderful and bloody preparation, has entered in Cuba a brand new interval of conflict, by advantage of the order and agreements of the Revolutionary Celebration overseas and on the Island, and of the exemplary congregation in it of all the weather consecrated to the sanitation and emancipation of the nation…”, so it begins.

The writing gathers the concepts expressed by Martí on nationalism, denounces the colonial order, exposes his marked anti-imperialism and dedication to vindicate the blood shed within the earlier wars.

Likewise, it exposes the character and objective of the emancipating conflict and the longer term Republic: the way it should be constituted, organized and developed, with the identical participation and equal rights and duties of whites and blacks.

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