Cuba commemorates the start of the War of Independence 130 years ago.
Known in history as the Necessary War, the struggle was initiated by the Cuban hero José Martí.
Latin Press - The uprising of the Liberation Army forces in eastern and the rest of Cuba, 130 years ago, marked the beginning of the Necessary War, organized by National Hero José Martí.
The previous conflict, which ended in 1878 after 10 years of battles, did not achieve its emancipatory goals, which motivated Martí, from exile, as a Delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, to prepare a new war effort to achieve the freedom and sovereignty of the island.
To achieve his independence goals, Martí relied on the most prominent figures from the previous movement and managed to organize a movement that responded to his orders, within the context of a developing revolutionary situation, expressed in the intensification of the main contradiction between the colony and the metropolis.
Several social and political conditions led to the conflict: the Cuban economy was still in crisis, the Spanish policy of high taxes continued, and the United States had become the economic metropolis, expressing its interest in political and territorial domination, among other factors.
Despite the sacrifice of Cuban patriots, the US intervention at the end of the war (1898) sabotaged the independence movement and left Cuba subject to the political and economic domination of Washington, which imposed a mediated republic.
Decades later, the Necessary War served as inspiration for the fighters of the feat led by Fidel Castro, who achieved the island's definitive independence with the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959.
