Panama City/Prensa Latina
Members of the Cuban embassy in Panama paid tribute this Friday to the legacy of revolutionary intransigence of General Antonio Maceo on the occasion of the 146th anniversary of the so-called Baraguá Protest.
Next to the bust that perpetuates the memory of the independence hero in the emblematic Belisario Porras park, the participants in the ceremony, led by the ambassador of the Caribbean nation, Víctor Cairo, evoked the bravery and dignity of those who refused to accept a peace without independence of the Spanish colony.
The speaker on duty, the island’s consul in the isthmus, Mahivyn Rodríguez, recalled the events of March 15, 1878, in Mangos de Baraguá.
He highlighted Maceo’s laconic phrase: “No, we don’t understand each other” to Spanish General Arsenio Martínez, who put an end to the Zanjón Pact, with which the metropolis, after 10 years of war, offered the cessation of hostilities without a solution to the colonial situation that raised the Cubans in arms.
According to Rodríguez, this act was transcendental for the struggles for independence from Spain and became a symbol of revolutionary intransigence.
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