Today marks one year of the birth of the rebel Antonio Maceo. We make your well-deserved tribute to a biographical note and a text by José Martí. VIVA LA LIBERTAD. VIVA MACEO.
Antonio Maceo, known as "The Bronze Titan," was born in a rural area of \u200b\u200bSantiago de Cuba on June 14, 1845.
Cuban was the son of Mariana Grajales and Marcos Maceo, a mulatto from Venezuela. When Maceo was born, Spain dominated with an iron hand to the largest island in the Caribbean Sea. Slavery was the system prevailing in the island and abuse were received by the population at twenty-four hours a day.
Esteban Roldán written around 1940, the following words on the great Antonio Maceo:
"Born in Santiago de Cuba on July 14, 1845 and fell on the battlefield, in full glory and apotheosis bravery, December 7, 1896, in the action of San Pedro, in a place called Punta Brava. Needless
detail their acts of bravery and acts of war. Maceo filled with all the epic name of liberation, from the beginning of the 68 until 1896. And most of all: Maceo is war. It summarizes all the grandeur and excelsis of Latin American military leader, but exceeds those leaders for the sublimity of their discipline and hierarchy. His enormous prestige and do not use real caudillismo a moment for your personal benefit or dominance, but the best glory of Cuba and it makes all aware of the hierarchy established by the civil authorities of the Republic in Arms.
has not nor has ever rebelled whim personal. It does not take first place in the management or conduct of the war even when occupying the top spot in the action and danger. Maximo Gomez has been appointed general in chief. The Antonio Maceo this does not detract sleep or feel mortified. On the contrary, until the day of his death will be his first assistant and direct with him, in proof of their discipline rendered, to be assistant chief's son that the Republic has given him.
Maceo And it is the perfect revolutionary and truly revolutionary for its conduct and for their struggle. Comes down, so low that it has not had time to take a culture from a young age because he has lived in the burning heart of war, but has plenty of intuition to play his part with undeniable genius. Maceo
has shown that it is the place where the company or the events that put us gives luster, but the personal work, construction of behavior.
Wherever destiny holds for us, for secondary it seems, can be given "first", provided there is in each of us the skills and qualities of "first figure." And this I sensed Maceo and continued at his post ... and posterity and the national sentiment of the people and historians place him, without intent to terminate or prestige to none in the first place. Maceo, say the people, and Maceo.
"During the truce has tried over and over again to resume the revolution. The men did not listen to his advances and had to go into exile. And when Martí organized and prepared and the triggers to throw on Cuba and it definitively wrest from their bondage, Maceo not ask where they're going to place or put it concerns: the war comes to occupy the place it has nominated.
And with passion and love and loyalty and discipline made the "impossible" for the invasion. Maceo has seen with his bodily eyes the triumph of the Revolution, but he knows and feels that the Revolution is now a reality for him and the handful anonymous children of the people who follow him, knows that Spain has been defeated in his military honor and pride unrepentant. Its mission is fulfilled, for he died, not prematurely as someone says in maudlin lamentation but in time and haloed by the glow of his exploits and without having to endure the miseries and apostasy in the course of U.S. domination and life Republicans have saddened many distinguished liberators or corrupted so many fighters weak soul. "
Written by José Martí in 1893 after a trip to Jamaica, where visited the mother and the wife of General Maceo.
of the mother, rather than the father, is the son, and is a great misfortune should people loose body, but Maceo was happy, because it came a lion and lioness. Already dying Mariana Grajales, mother, the glorious old lady abroad, and still have hands to caress girl who speaks of the country. Raise your head wrinkled, with a scarf seems crown. And you do not know why, but he kisses her hand. At the head of her sick grandson, the old woman spoke of the fights of their children, their fears, their joys. Nestled in a hole in the ground became mortal hours, while around crossed swords and machetes. Saw stand up to his son Antonio, bleeding the whole body, and with ten men to disband two hundred English. And travelers on behalf of the cause of Cuba will see Jamaica, he served with his hands and came to the door.
Mary Cabrales, Maceo's wife, who is a noble lady, or would haunted death, because he saw in the shadow of death many times. There is no midwife that she learned or in the war was best healer. Once said, when there were women on the battlefield: "If not now going to be women. Who will care for the wounded? "With open hands who is ahead of the visit and has hopes of his land. Is always dressed in black, but it's like the clothe the Cuban flag. Easy are the heroes, with such women!
now lives in Costa Rica Antonio Maceo. Occasionally smiling, is that war is coming. Everything can be done. Everything will be done on time. And we must pay attention to what he says, because Maceo has in mind as strongly as in the arm. Strong is his thought, as the lines of his skull. His word is of an artistic elegance that comes after careful adjustment to the idea. Do not let broken phrase, or use voice impure, or hesitates when it appears. Neither swelling nor the word never left the reins. But becomes one day the sun, and wakes the other and gives the first gleam of the window on the warrior did not sleep all night looking for ways to make their country free. With the thought of will, even more than the value. In general Maceo are natural vigor and grandeur. Posted by
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