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La Protesta de Baraguá

El día 15 de marzo de 1878, en "Mangos de Baraguá" situado en el oriente cubano, en las cercanías de la ciudad de Santiago de Cuba, se llevó a cabo una reunión entre el general español Arsenio Martínez-Campos y el general cubano Antonio Maceo. En dicha reunión el general Maceo expresó que los cubanos allí reunidos no estaban de acuerdo con lo pactado en el Zanjón y que no se someterían a esa paz sin independencia que se había logrado con la firma de ese documento.

El general Antonio Maceo le expresó a su homólogo español, quien trataba de convencerlo de que firmara dicho pacto:

"No estamos de acuerdo con lo pactado en el Zanjón; no creemos que las condiciones allí estipuladas justifiquen la rendición después del rudo batallar por una idea durante diez años y deseo evitarle la molestia de que continúe sus explicaciones porque aquí no se aceptan",
Además, un frase muy conocida y de mucha significación para cualquier revolucionario cubano fue la de:

"Entonces, no nos entendemos"- dijo Martínez-Campos- y Maceo responde: "No, no nos entendemos."
Esto ha pasado a la historia cubana como un acto de rebeldía y de ansias de libertad. Maceo expresó además la determinación que tenían él y los hombres bajo su mando de proseguir con la lucha armada indefinidamente hasta lograr la independencia.



Arsenio Martínez Campos ruled Cuba for the Spanish empire prior to the Cuban War of Independence.

General Martínez Campos was an important and high ranking figure in the Spanish military. He was sent to Cuba first after the 10 Years' War.

The war was coming to an end, but an agreement had not yet been reached. Martínez Campos tricked the Cuban revolutionaries into
"We are gambling with the destiny of Spain. . . . The insurrection today is more serious and more powerful than early 1876. The leaders know more and their manor of waging war is different from what it was then. . . . Even if we win in the field and suppress the rebels, since the country wishes to have neither an amnesty for our enemies nor an extermination of them, my loyal and sincere opinion is that, with reforms or without reforms, before twelve years we shall have another war."

signing the Pact of Zanjón on February 10, 1878, which promised the Cubans many reforms and concessions that the Spanish did not honor.

He returned to Spain where he became the prime minister. In November of 1879, Martínez Campos declared that slavery would come to an end in Cuba in 1888.

In 1893, an assassination attempt was made on Campos while in Barcelona. It failed, and many people were executed for involvement.

On the 18th of April in 1895, the Cánovas government in Spain, sent in General Martínez de Campos to take control of Cuba. The Spanish government was becoming very worried at the gains of the revolutionaries, and this caused it to send off its best general.

Martínez de Campos was largely unsuccessful in Cuba. He tried building trenches to protect the Spanish troops, but the Cubans easily circumnavigated them. His columns could not stop the advancing Cuban soldiers.

Cuban General Máximo Gómez began an invasion of the island. His forces went west, destroying the countryside to ruin economic interests and gain additional troops. The Spanish proved powerless against this attack.

The Spanish retreated to Havana, and the Cuban troops began to mass nearby. General Martínez Campos, to the Spanish government and people, had proved himself unable to win the war. In January of 1896, he resigned to be replaced by General Valeriano Weyler.