Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Mar 25th. - Cuba remembers today the signing of the Montecristi Manifesto, a historical document that founded, 130 years ago, the beginning of the last independence war in this Caribbean nation.
Runned by the National Hero José Martí, and the Generalísimo of Dominican origin, Máximo Gómez, the text transcends its political-ideological content.
According to local historiography, the document was titled The Cuban Revolutionary Party to Cuba, but it went down in history under the name of Manifesto de Montecristi in the northern city of the Dominican Republic where it saw the light.
The revolution of independence, begun in Yara after glorious and bloody preparation, has entered Cuba into a new period of war, under the order and agreements of the Revolutionary Party abroad and on the island, and the exemplary congregation in it of all the elements dedicated to the sanitation and emancipation of the country..., it begins.
It explains that the war would not be waged against the Spaniards, but against the colonial yoke prevailing on the island since the time of conquest, and calls Cubans to the armed uprising redeeming.
It also details the program conceived by the revolutionary movement, which had both patriots as its highest exponents.
The letter reflects the ideas expressed by Martí about nationalism, denounces the colonial order, exposes its marked anti-imperialism and commitment to claim the bloodshed in the previous wars.
It also sets out the nature and purpose of the emancipatory war and the future Republic: how it is to be constituted, organized and developed, with the same participation and equal rights and duties of whites and blacks. (Text and photo: PL)
