“#Cuba extends its congratulations to the people and government of #Ecuador, on the occasion of the 216th anniversary of the First Cry for Independence,” the island’s Foreign Ministry stated on the social network X.

August 10, 1809, marked the beginning of Ecuador’s independence process. That day, a group of Creoles, dissatisfied with Spanish rule, established a sovereign governing junta that removed the president of the Royal Audience of Quito and declared autonomy.

This Revolution was part of the Latin American liberation movements that finally achieved the end of colonialism, a pioneering event in world history.

The path was laid out, and independence was sealed with the Creole victory over the Spanish forces at the Battle of Pichincha, fought on May 24, 1822, under the leadership of Antonio Jose de Sucre.

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