{"id":8278,"date":"2023-10-12T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2023-10-11T23:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T23:46:39","slug":"cuba-marks-155-years-since-the-beginning-of-the-struggle-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-marks-155-years-since-the-beginning-of-the-struggle-for-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Marks 155 Years since the Beginning of the Struggle for Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carlos Manuel de C\u00e9spedes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every October 10th is a reason for national pride. On that day in 1868, 155 years ago, Cubans began the struggle for the independence of the island, then known as the \u201cmost precious jewel of the Spanish crown,\u201d which lived under a humiliating submission amid an unstoppable process of love for the homeland. The first light of day and the chiming bells of La Demajagua sugar mill were the beginning of a sole, continuous process, which started with the Father of the Homeland, Carlos Manuel de C\u00e9spedes, and concluded with the victory of the \u201cBarbudos\u201d on January 1st, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u00e9spedes was not only the first brave man to initiate the struggle for Cuba\u2019s independence. He was also the first to free the slaves of his vast sugar mill and encouraged them to join the independence cause. This was the beginning of a hundred years of struggle, the beginning of the Revolution. C\u00e9spedes, whose mortal remains rest in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba, next to those of the Apostle Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed and the leader Fidel Castro, symbolized the spirit of the Cubans of that time, the dignity and the rebelliousness of a people that began to be born into history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The uprising couldn\u2019t wait too long. Nor could it risk going through the long process of achieving a perfect organization because it was extremely difficult in Cuba\u2019s conditions at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These events provided us with an extraordinary example for the years to come: it doesn\u2019t matter if there are no resources or weapons. There will be no obstacles that prevent us from fighting against injustice and tyranny as long as there are people we trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a century ago, we had no Cuban nationality, political maturity, or common destiny. In those first decades of the last century, when the rest of Latin America had already gained independence from the Spanish colony, the power of Spain over the island remained on solid foundations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The road against the monopoly was not easy. According to historians, few people in the world could face such great sacrifices as those endured by the Cuban people during those first ten years of struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo ignore them is a crime against justice and culture\u2026 it is a crime for any revolutionary,\u201d the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016), acknowledged during a speech on the 150th anniversary of the founding date of Cuba\u2019s Independence. It is well known the almost total lack of help from abroad and the history of divisions, which made it difficult and finally impossible for the diaspora to the Cubans who rose up in arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, our people \u2013 making incredible sacrifices, heroically bearing the burden of that war, overcoming the difficult moments \u2013 learned the art of war. It built up a small but energetic army supplied with the weapons of its enemies. The most virtuous patriots, such as the Maceo brothers, began to emerge from the heart of the humblest people, the combatants, peasants, and freed slaves,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have plenty of reasons to contemplate our history with pride. Today\u2019s consciousness, our constant resistance against the impossible, is thanks to the lineage inherited by the first men and women who dreamed of a Free Cuba a century ago in a context in which it seemed a chimera, a utopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Resumen Latinoamericano \u2013 English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every October 10th is a reason for national pride. On that day in 1868, 155 years ago, Cubans began the struggle for the independence of the island, then known as the \u201cmost precious jewel of the Spanish crown,\u201d which lived under a humiliating submission amid an unstoppable process of love for the homeland. The first light of day and the chiming bells of La Demajagua sugar mill were the beginning of a sole, continuous process, which started with the Father of the Homeland, Carlos Manuel de C\u00e9spedes, and concluded with the victory of the \u201cBarbudos\u201d on January 1st, 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":8279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2921,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-remembers-beginning-of-independence-struggle-152-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":8278,"position":0},"title":"Cuba remembers beginning of independence struggle 152 years ago","author":"Editorial Team","date":"October 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Carlos Manuel de C\u00e9spedes made the decision to start the war, gave his slaves their freedom and invited them to fight for a free Cuba.\u00a0 Photo: PL archive The Cuban people remember the armed uprising of October 10, 1868, which marked the beginning of the independence process against Spain in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cuba"","block_context":{"text":"Cuba","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/cuba\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/carlos-manuel.png?fit=766%2C421&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/carlos-manuel.png?fit=766%2C421&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/carlos-manuel.png?fit=766%2C421&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/carlos-manuel.png?fit=766%2C421&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7955,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cubans-celebrate-64-years-of-the-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":8278,"position":1},"title":"Cubans celebrate 64 years of the Revolution","author":"Editorial Team","date":"January 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cImagine what Cuba could have done if there was no blockade\u201d\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "Cuba"","block_context":{"text":"Cuba","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/cuba\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-kids-Granma.jpeg?fit=700%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-kids-Granma.jpeg?fit=700%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-kids-Granma.jpeg?fit=700%2C480&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-kids-Granma.jpeg?fit=700%2C480&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2301,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/black-lives-matter-a-lot-in-cuba-since-1959\/","url_meta":{"origin":8278,"position":2},"title":"Black Lives Matter a lot in Cuba\u2026 since 1959","author":"Editorial Team","date":"July 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"When in 1868, Cuban slave-owner Manuel de C\u00e9spedes embarked on a 10-year nationalist uprising against Spain, the colonial master, he did not imagine he would be building not only the political bases of an independent Cuba but also the ideological blocks of a new Cuban identity. 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