This was a simultaneous action organized in some 350 Cuban towns and cities, including Baire, a town located about 75 kilometers east of Santiago de Cuba city, a date that ranks among the most significant events in the island’s history.

On that day, the Cuban independence fighters, known then and now as “mambi” soldiers, once again took up arms and started the Necessary War envisioned by Marti to achieve definitive independence from Spanish colonial rule.

United by the urgent need for true freedom and sovereignty, and guided by the determination, courage, and experience of heroes Antonio Maceo and Maximo Gomez, the people decided to conclude the struggle that had begun almost three decades earlier with the Grito de Yara (Cry of Yara) and had been interrupted again and again.

The Cuban people legitimized, in this way, the organizational efforts of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC), demonstrated the importance of unity among social classes, and defined, without hesitation, that their primary aspiration was the independence of Cuba from any form of domination.

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